Statistics and scaling of turbulence in a spatially developing mixing layer at Reλ = 250

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Attili, Antonio ^a   Bisetti, Fabrizio ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; MIXING; SHOCK TUBES; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EXTENDED SELF SIMILARITY; HOMOGENEOUS ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES; LONGITUDINAL VELOCITY; TURBULENCE GENERATION; TURBULENCE STATISTICS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT MIXING LAYERS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84859330860     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3696302     Document Type: Article

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