A unified sweep-stick mechanism to explain particle clustering in two- and three-dimensional homogeneous, isotropic turbulence

DOI10.1063/1.3257638zbMath1183.76154OpenAlexW1964146630MaRDI QIDQ5304893

S. W. Coleman, John Christos Vassilicos

Publication date: 18 March 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/5b0bdcc735b46239e781894e6679104e07b7aaa4

zbMATH Keywords

turbulenceflow simulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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