Energy dissipation rate surrogates in incompressible Navier-Stokes turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 697, Issue , 2012, Pages 204-236

  Almalkie, Saba ^a   De Bruyn Kops, Stephen M ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

intermittency; isotropic turbulence; turbulence simulation

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TENSORS; TURBULENCE;

ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; HOMOGENEOUS TURBULENCE; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES; INTERMITTENCY; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; STRAIN RATE TENSORS; TURBULENCE SIMULATION;

STRAIN RATE;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN RATE; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84859516886     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.53     Document Type: Article

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