Topological characterization of flow structures in resistive pressure-gradient-driven turbulence
Plasma Physics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
Visualization of turbulent flows is a powerful tool to help understand the turbulence dynamics and induced transport. However, it does not provide a quantitative description of the observed structures. In this paper, an approach to characterize quantitatively the topology of the flows is given. The technique, which can be applied to any type of turbulence dynamics, is illustrated through the example of resistive ballooning instabilities.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0811.3548,
title = {Topological characterization of flow structures in resistive pressure-gradient-driven turbulence},
author = {Benjamin A. Carreras and Irene Llerena and Luis Garcia and Ivan Calvo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.3548},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
28 pages, 13 figures