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It is shown that the averaged velocity profiles predicted by statistical mechanics of point vortices and statistical mechanics of vortex lines are practically indistinguishable for a shear flow between two parallel walls.
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Shirkov, L., Berdichevsky, V. Comparison of three-dimensional and two-dimensional statistical mechanics of shear layers for flow between two parallel plates. Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. 25, 269–272 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-012-0249-6
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