Decay of homogeneous, nearly isotropic turbulence behind active fractal grids

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Thormann, Adrien ^a,b   Meneveau, Charles ^a,b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

GRID FRACTAL DIMENSIONS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; ISOTROPIC TURBULENT FLOW; SIERPINSKI TRIANGLE; SPATIALLY HOMOGENEOUS; THERMAL ANEMOMETRY; TURBULENCE THEORY;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 84905188423     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4865232     Document Type: Article

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