The structure of a passive scalar field with a uniform mean gradient in rapidly sheared homogeneous turbulent flow

DOI10.1063/1.857873zbMath0718.76052MaRDI QIDQ5750590

Michael M. Rogers

Publication date: 1991

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.857873

zbMATH Keywords

direct numerical simulations; inviscid limit; homogeneous turbulent shear flow; one-point statistics; one-point passive scalar statistics; oriented mean passive scalar gradient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76F10: Shear flows and turbulence

76F05: Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence

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