Two-dimensional turbulence

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 44, Issue , 2011, Pages 427-451

  Boffetta, Guido ^a   Ecke, Robert E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal invariance; Energy flux; Enstrophy flux; Friction drag; Palinstrophy

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; ENERGY FLUXES; ENSTROPHY; FRICTION DRAG; PALINSTROPHY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENCE;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DRAG; FRICTION; GEOMETRY; LITERATURE REVIEW; PROBABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TURBULENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 84155167242     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-120710-101240     Document Type: Article

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