The statistical mechanics of a discrete-vortex system is considered in a coarse-grained sense, as a model for relaxation of two-dimensional turbulence at very large Reynolds numbers. The implications are qualitatively consistent with observations from recent numerical simulations of decaying homogeneous turbulence.
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Ralph A. Smith (1991) studied this question.
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