The convection of large and intermediate scale fluctuations in a turbulent mixing layer

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Buxton, O R H ^a   de Kat, R ^b   Ganapathisubramani, B ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CONVECTION VELOCITY; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PHASE DIFFERENCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS (PDFS); STREAM-WISE VELOCITIES; TURBULENT MIXING LAYERS; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

VELOCITY;

EID: 84891588393     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4837555     Document Type: Article

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