Statistics of an advected passive scalar

DOI10.1063/1.858530zbMath0782.76044OpenAlexW2049276563MaRDI QIDQ4271411

Yoshifumi Kimura, Robert H. Kraichnan

Publication date: 20 December 1993

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.858530

zbMATH Keywords

non-Gaussian fluctuationsrandom advectiondiffusive caseEulerian mapping closurenondiffusive caseselectively strong dissipation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other physical applications of random processes (60K40) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05)

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