Numerical simulation of relative dispersion in two-dimensional, homogeneous, decaying turbulence

DOI10.1017/S002211208100092XzbMath0469.76039MaRDI QIDQ3923793

A. Daniel Kowalski, Richard L. Peskin

Publication date: 1981

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

zbMATH Keywords

two-dimensional; decaying turbulence; relative dispersion; pseudospectral code; high-wavenumber enstrophy cascade spectral range; Kraichnan's expression for non-local strain; Lagrangian statistical results; mean square relative separation; two-particle, relative velocity correlations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65C20: Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics

76F99: Turbulence

76F05: Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence

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