Statistical Equilibrium Computations of Coherent Structures in Turbulent Shear Layers

DOI10.1137/S1064827593251708zbMath0860.76041OpenAlexW2042180295MaRDI QIDQ4717315

Bruce Turkington, Nathaniel Whitaker

Publication date: 23 April 1997

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/s1064827593251708

zbMATH Keywords

optimizationconvergenceiterative algorithmvorticitycoalescencevortex patchescoherent vortexmicroscopic scalelocal probability distributionmaximum entropy statesrollup

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