Flow topology and scalar mixing in spatially heterogeneous flow fields

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  De Barros, Felipe P J ^a   Dentz, Marco ^b   Koch, Jonas ^c   Nowak, Wolfgang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; STRETCHING;

FLOW MECHANISMS; FLOW TOPOLOGY; GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS; HETEROGENEOUS FLOW; LOCAL MIXING; LOCAL SCALE; MIXING BEHAVIORS; SCALAR MIXING;

MIXING;

DILUTION; ENTROPY; FLOW FIELD; FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; MAPPING; MIXING; TOPOLOGY; VORTICITY;

EID: 84861324324     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051302     Document Type: Article

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