The random uniform shear layer: An explicit example of turbulent diffusion with broad tail probability distributions

DOI10.1063/1.858823zbMath0781.76047OpenAlexW2090020831MaRDI QIDQ4271385

Publication date: 10 February 1994

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.858823

zbMATH Keywords

advection-diffusion higher-order statistics limiting probability distribution function quantum mechanical analogy Gaussian probability distribution functions large-scale intermittency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffusion (76R50) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35)

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