A study of the fine-scale motions of incompressible time-developing mixing layers

DOI10.1063/1.868323zbMath0827.76031MaRDI QIDQ4838718

A. E. Perry, Julio Soria, Brian J. Cantwell, Min S. Chong, R. Sondergaard

Publication date: 12 July 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.868323

zbMATH Keywords

invariants; direct numerical simulations; velocity gradient tensor; scatter plots; kinetic energy dissipation; dissipating motions; high enstrophy density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76F10: Shear flows and turbulence

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

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