Studying Lagrangian dynamics of turbulence using on-demand fluid particle tracking in a public turbulence database

Journal of Turbulence

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-29

  Yu, Huidan ^a,c   Kanov, Kalin ^a   Perlman, Eric ^a   Graham, Jason ^a   Frederix, Edo ^a,d   Burns, Randal ^a   Szalay, Alexander ^b   Eyink, Gregory ^a   Meneveau, Charles ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis   (United States)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Forced isotropic turbulence; Lagrangian time correlation; Particle tracking; Turbulence database; Web services

Indexed keywords

HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS; INTERPOLATION ALGORITHMS; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE TRACKING; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL INTERPOLATION; TIME CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; TIME CORRELATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATLAB; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WEB SERVICES;

TURBULENCE;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84877695084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14685248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14685248.2012.674643     Document Type: Article

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