Internal lee waves and turbulence mixing over an isolated seamount: Results from turbulence energy models

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1043-1072

  Xing, Jiuxing ^a   Davies, Alan M ^a  

^a Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lee waves; Mixing; Seamount; Turbulence energy

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

BAROCLINIC NUMERICAL MODEL; INTERNAL LEE WAVES; ISOLATED SEAMOUNT; RICHARDSON NUMBER FORMULATION;

WATER WAVES;

MIXING; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; TURBULENCE; WAVES;

EID: 0030294701     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0363(19961130)23:10<1043::aid-fld451>3.0.co;2-s     Document Type: Article

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