Modelling the behaviour of homogeneous scalar turbulence

DOI10.1017/S002211208100236XzbMath0472.76053OpenAlexW2012121125MaRDI QIDQ3926936

Gary R. Newman, John L. Lumley, B. E. Launder

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s002211208100236x

zbMATH Keywords

dissipationstatistical characteristics of passive scalar

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Turbulence (76Fxx) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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Cites Work

• Realizability of Reynolds-stress turbulence models
• The return to isotropy of homogeneous turbulence
• The large-scale structure of homogeneous turbulence
• An almost-Markovian Galilean-invariant turbulence model
• An experimental study of turbulence in a density-stratified shear flow

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