Dissipation and enstrophy in isotropic turbulence: Resolution effects and scaling in direct numerical simulations

DOI10.1063/1.2907227zbMath1182.76213OpenAlexW2129891976MaRDI QIDQ5303911

P. K. Yeung, Diego A. Donzis, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Publication date: 18 March 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/20b06ec6e16724dddcb3a1d85c7b2e06703f5ce7

zbMATH Keywords

vorticesturbulenceflow simulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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