The helical nature of unforced turbulent flows
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- letter
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 29 (11), 3506-3508
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865825
Abstract
Results of direct numerical simulations of the decay of nearly isotropic turbulence exhibit clearly that much of the flow evolves in orientation to a state in which the vorticity vector is nearly aligned with the velocity vector.Keywords
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