Evidence for organized small-scale structure in fully developed turbulence
- 22 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 64 (4) , 415-418
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.64.415
Abstract
The intermittent fine structure of fully developed turbulence is studied by means of a visualization experiment. Characteristic locally ordered flow patterns, tentatively identified as layered vortex sheets, are observed.Keywords
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