Chaotic advection in point vortex models and two-dimensional turbulence

DOI10.1063/1.868194zbMath0832.76039OpenAlexW1997766896MaRDI QIDQ4841921

G. Boffetta, Armando Babiano, Antonello Provenzale, Angelo Vulpiani

Publication date: 24 July 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.868194

zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationsLagrangian dynamicspassively advected particlesadvecting Eulerian field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45) Dynamical systems approach to turbulence (76F20)

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