Alignment of tracer gradient vectors in 2D turbulence

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(00)00119-6zbMath1037.76026OpenAlexW1969336044WikidataQ127289482 ScholiaQ127289482MaRDI QIDQ5940292

Bach Lien Hua, Patrice Klein, Guillaume Lapeyre

Publication date: 2000

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-2789(00)00119-6

zbMATH Keywords

alignment dynamicseffective rotation-dominated regionspressure Hessiansecond-order Lagrangian dynamicsstirringstrain-dominated regions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical turbulence modeling (76F55) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25)

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