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Phys. Rev. A 43, 806 - 810 (1991)

Lévy walk in lattice-gas hydrodynamics

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F. Hayot
Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210

Received 6 July 1990

In order to model turbulent channel flow, and establish a closure approximation in lattice-gas hydrodynamics, I implement a Lévy walk at the microscopic level. The algorithm is described and discussed, and results on velocity profile flattening and its shape are presented.


©1991 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v43/p806
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.43.806
PACS: 47.25.Jn, 46.10.+z, 47.60.+i

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