Intermittency and local Reynolds number in Navier-Stokes turbulence: A cross-over scale in the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg integral

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Dowker, Mark ^a   Ohkitani, Koji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHENIUM COMPOUNDS; TURBULENCE; VISCOUS FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

CORRELATION EXPONENTS; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; NAVIER-STOKES TURBULENCE; PARAMETRIC REPRESENTATIONS; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; RANDOM INITIAL CONDITIONS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 84872372115     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4767728     Document Type: Article

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