Katabatic Flow: A Closed-Form Solution with Spatially-Varying Eddy Diffusivities

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Katabatic Flow: A Closed-Form Solution with Spatially-Varying Eddy Diffusivities

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Improvements to the dynamic wake meandering model by incorporating the turbulent Schmidt number

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Anomalous Dissipation and Lack of Selection in the Obukhov-Corrsin Theory of Scalar Turbulence

Numerical study on the scale effect of tip vortex cavitation induced by incoming velocities and scale ratios

Dissipative magnetic structures and scales in small-scale dynamos

The hunt for the Karman 'constant' revisited

From thin plates to Ahmed bodies: linear and weakly nonlinear stability of rectangular prisms

Symmetry-reduced low-dimensional representation of large-scale dynamics in the asymptotic suction boundary layer

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Impact of the turbulence wavenumber spectrum and probing beam geometry on Doppler reflectometry perpendicular velocity measurements

A physics-based model for wind turbine wake expansion in the atmospheric boundary layer

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Effects of the parallel flow shear on the ITG-driven turbulent transport in tokamak plasmas