Dissipation in turbulent flows

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2015, Pages 95-114

  Vassilicos, J Christos ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nonequilibrium turbulence; Richardson Kolmogorov cascade; Turbulence dissipation scalings

Indexed keywords

KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

DISSIPATION RATE OF TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; ENERGY SPECTRA; KOLMOGOROV; LOCAL TURBULENCE; NON EQUILIBRIUM; SCALINGS; TURBULENCE THEORY; TURBULENT EDDY;

TURBULENT FLOW;

DISSIPATION; EDDY; KINETIC ENERGY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RICHARDSON NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84978024281     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-010814-014637     Document Type: Review

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