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Thick puddle made thin

Nature Physics volume 7, pages 279–280 (2011)Cite this article

For turbulent flows, the energy transfer between large and small whirls depends on the dimension of the fluid. Imposing large-scale shear on a three-dimensional system can unexpectedly induce two-dimensional behaviour.

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Figure 1: Downscale and upscale energy transfers.
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H. KELLAY, LOMA, UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1

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  1. Hamid Kellay is at Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine, Université Bordeaux 1, 33405 Talence, France.,

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