Numerical study of large-scale vorticity generation in shear-flow turbulence
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Numerical study of large-scale vorticity generation in shear-flow turbulence.
Simulations of stochastically forced shear-flow turbulence in a shearing-periodic domain are used to study the spontaneous generation of large-scale flow patterns in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the shear. Based on an analysis of the resulting large-scale velocity correlations it is argued that the mechanism behind this phenomenon could be the mean-vorticity dynamo effect pioneer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.79.016302