Experimental evidence of the Kraichnan scalar spectrum at high reynolds numbers

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1717-1728

  Bogucki, D J ^a   Luo, H ^a   Domaradzki, J A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; HORIZONTAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; PASSIVE SCALARS; SCALAR SPECTRUM; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT SPECTRA; WAVE NUMBERS;

DIFFUSION; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TURBULENCE;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FLUID FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84871897670     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-0214.1     Document Type: Article

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