Freely decaying, homogeneous turbulence generated by multi-scale grids

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 680, Issue , 2011, Pages 417-434

  Krogstad, P A ^a   Davidson, P A ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

homogeneous turbulence; turbulence theory; turbulent mixing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; SHEAR FLOW; WIND TUNNELS;

HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCE; KOLMOGOROV SCALING; MULTI-SCALE GRIDS; POWER LAW DECAY; TEST SECTIONS; TURBULENCE LEVEL; TURBULENCE THEORY; TURBULENT MIXING;

TURBULENCE;

POWER LAW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 80052174356     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.169     Document Type: Article

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