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The Structure of Turbulent Flows

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Structural properties of turbulent flows are introduced and classified in the present chapter. They have been the subject of experimental and theoretical research for a long time, see the proceedings of the IUTAM symposium in Cambridge U.K. 1989 [1] for the topological and geometric aspects of flow structures.

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Kollmann, W. (2019). The Structure of Turbulent Flows. In: Navier-Stokes Turbulence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31869-7_20

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