Vorticity, defects and correlations in active turbulence

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2029, 2014, Pages

  Thampi, Sumesh P ^a   Golestanian, Ramin ^a   Yeomans, Julia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active turbulence; Correlations; Defects; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEFECT DENSITY; DEFECTS; TURBULENCE;

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CONTINUUM MODELING; CORRELATIONS; GENERATION MECHANISM; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; ROTATIONAL DIFFUSION; THREE PARAMETERS; VELOCITY CORRELATIONS;

VORTICITY;

EID: 84908518530     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0366     Document Type: Article

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