Abstract
Experiments have found that freely relaxing turbulence in inviscid, incompressible two-dimensional Euler flows can self-organize into ordered structures-vortex crystals-in which a number Nc˜2-20 of strong vortices form stable, rigidly rotating patterns in a low vorticity background. In this paper we show that Nc can be roughly predicted from properties of the flows in the early stage of the turbulent relaxation.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1443-1446 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2000 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Physics and Astronomy
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