A numerical study of the mixing of a passive scalar in three dimensions in the presence of a mean gradient
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Publication:4841894
DOI10.1063/1.868216zbMath0834.76040OpenAlexW1968563327MaRDI QIDQ4841894
Publication date: 24 July 1995
Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.868216
gradientprobability distribution functionadvection-diffusion equationhyperbolic regionselliptic regionsstrong anisotropy of scalar gradients
Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Turbulence (76F99) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)
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