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Geometrical arguments lead to the definition of two education criteria for coherent structures in two-dimensional incompressible turbulent flows. These criteria involve the pressure or the vorticity field and are compared.
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Communicated by Mark N. Glauser, Jean-Paul Bonnet, and Thomas B. Gatski
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Larchevêque, M. Pressure field, vorticity field, and coherent structures in two-dimensional incompressible turbulent flows. Theoret. Comput. Fluid Dynamics 5, 215–222 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00271659
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