Statistics of the energy dissipation rate and local enstrophy in turbulent channel flow

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 241, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 169-177

  Hamlington, Peter E ^a   Krasnov, Dmitry ^b   Boeck, Thomas ^b   Schumacher, Jörg ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy dissipation rate; Enstrophy; Turbulent channel flows; Turbulent shear flows

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; REYNOLDS EQUATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WALL FLOW;

ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; ENSTROPHY; HIGH ORDER STATISTICS; LOGARITHMIC LAYERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER EFFECT; TURBULENT CHANNEL FLOWS; TURBULENT SHEAR FLOWS; VORTICAL STRUCTURES;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84655166572     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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