Geometry and topology of Turbulence in active nematics

Physical Review X

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Giomi, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Soft matter

Indexed keywords

MEAN FIELD THEORY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPECTRAL DENSITY; TURBULENCE; VORTEX FLOW;

CORRELATION FUNCTION; FLOW GEOMETRIES; INCOMPRESSIBLE TURBULENT FLOW; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; NEMATIC DIRECTOR; SOFT MATTER; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84942329575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.5.031003     Document Type: Article

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