Statistical analysis of the rate of strain tensor in compressible homogeneous turbulence

DOI10.1063/1.858681zbMath0805.76025OpenAlexW1988692599MaRDI QIDQ4302960

Gordon Erlebacher, Sutanu Sarkar

Publication date: 2 February 1995

Published in: Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/ccb9546417fa6512ffcdec6c384071ab5cf3d882

zbMATH Keywords

vorticitypressure gradientprobability density functionsHelmholtz decompositioneigenvalue distributionsmean sheareigenvector orientations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10)

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