Turbulence-induced rectified flows in rotating fluids

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 350, Issue , 1997, Pages 97-118

  Zhang, Xiuzhang ^a   Boyer, Don L ^a   Fernando, Harindra J S ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATIONAL FLOW; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

RECTIFIED FLOW;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0031271998     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112097006812     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. BARDINA, J., FERZIGER, J. H. & ROGALLO, R. S. 1985 Effects of rotation on isotropic turbulence: Computation and modelling. J. Fluid Mech. 154, 321-336.
2. BARTELLO, P., MÉTAIS, O. & LESIEUR, M. 1994 Coherent structures in rotating three-dimensional turbulence. J. Fluid Mech. 273, 1-29.
3. BIDOKHTI, A. A. & TRITTON, D. J. 1992 The structure of a turbulent free shear layer in a rotating fluid. J. Fluid Mech. 241, 469-502.
4. BOYER, D. L., CHABERT D'HIÈRES, G., DIDELLE, H., VERRON, J., CHEN, R. & TAO, L. 1991 Laboratory simulation of tidal rectification over seamounts, homogeneous model. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 21, 1559-1579.
5. BRETHERTON, F. P. & HAIDVOGEL, D. B. 1976 Two-dimensional turbulence above topography. J. Fluid Mech. 78, 129-154.
6. BRITHERTON, F. P. & TURNER, J. S. 1968 On the mixing of angular momentum in a stirred rotating fluid. J. Fluid Mech. 32, 449-464.
7. BUTMAN, B., BEARDSLEY, R. C., MAGNELL, B., FRYE, D., VERMERSCH, J. A., SCHLITZ, R., LIMEBURNER, R., WRIGHT, W. R. & NOBLE, M. A. 1982 Recent observations of mean circulation on Georges Bank. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 12, 569-591.
8. CHEN, C. & BEARDSLEY, R. C. 1995 A numerical study of stratified rectification over finite-amplitude banks. Part I: symmetric banks. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 25, 2090-2110.
9. COLLIN DE VERDIERE, A. 1980 Quasi-geostrophic turbulence in a rotating homogeneous fluid. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn. 15, 23-251.
10. DICKINSON, S. C. & LONG, R. R. 1983 Oscillating grid turbulence including effects of rotation. J. Fluid Mech 126, 315-333.
11. ERIKSEN, C. 1991 Observations of amplified flows atop a large seamount. J. Geophys. Res 96, 15227-15236.
12. FERNANDO, H. J. S. & DE SILVA, P. D. 1993 Note on secondary flows in oscillating-grid, mixing-box experiments. Phys. Fluids A 5, 1849-1851.
13. GARREAU, P. & MAZÉ, R. 1992 Tidal rectification and mass transport over a shelf break: a barotropic frictionless model. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 22, 719-731.
14. GENIN, A., NOBLE, M. & LONSDALE, P. F. 1989 Tidal currents and anticyclonic motions on two North Pacific seamounts. Deep-Sea Res. 36, 1803-1815.
15. GOUGH, D.O. & LINDEN-BELL, D. 1968 Vorticity expulsion by turbulence: astrophysical implications of an Alka-Seltzer experiment. J. Fluid Mech. 32, 437-447.
16. HOLLOWAY, G. 1987 Systematic forcing of large-scale geophysical flows by eddy-topography interaction. J. Fluid Mech. 184, 463-476.
17. HONJI, H., TANEDA, S. & TATSUNO, A. 1980 Some practical details of the electrolytic precipitation method of flow visualization. Res. Int. Appl. Mech. 2, 83-89.
18. HOPFINGER, E. J. 1989 Turbulence and vortices in rotating fluids. In Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ed. P. Germain, M. Piau & D. Caillerie), pp. 117-138. Elsevier.
19. HOPFINGER, E. J., BROWAND, F. K. & GAGNE, A. 1982 Turbulence and waves in a rotating tank. J. Fluid Mech. 125, 505-534.
20. HOPFINGER, E. J. & TOLY, J.-A. 1976 Spatially decaying turbulence and its relation to mixing across density interfaces. J. Fluid Mech. 78, 155-175.
21. IBBETSON, A. & TRITTON, D. J. 1975 Experiments on turbulence in a rotating fluid. J. Fluid Mech. 68, 639-672.
22. MAAS, L. R. M. & ZIMMFRMAN, J. T. F. 1989a Tidal-topography interaction in a stratified shelf sea. I. Basic equations for quasi-nonlinear internal tides. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn. 45, 1-35.
23. MAAS, L. R. M. & ZIMMERMAN, J. T. F. 1989b Tidal-topography interaction in a stratified shelf sea. II. Bottom trapped internal tides and baroclinic residual currents. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn. 45, 37-69.
24. MCEWAN, A. D. 1973 Laboratory demonstration of angular momentum mixing. Geophys. Fluid Dyn. 5, 283-311.
25. MCEWAN, A. D. 1976 Angular momentum diffusion and the imitation of cyclones. Nature 260, 126-128.
26. MÉTAIS, O., FLORES, C., YANASE, S., RILEY, J. J. & LESIEUR, M. 1995 Rotating free-shear flows. Part 2. Numerical simulations. J. Fluid Mech. 293, 47-80.
27. PLUMB, R. A. & MCEWAN, A. D. 1978 The instability of a forced standing wave in a viscous stratified fluid: A laboratory analogue of the quasi-biennial oscillation. J. Atmos. Sci. 35, 1827-1839.
28. SCORER, R. S. 1965 Vorticity in nature. Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London, Rep.
29. SCORER, R. S. 1966 Origin of cyclones. Sci. J. 2, 46-52.
30. ZHANG, X. & BOYER, D. L. 1993 Laboratory study of rotating, stratified, oscillatory flow over a seamount. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 23, 1122-1141.
31. ZHANG, X., BOYER, D. L., CHABERT D'HIÈRES, G. & AELBRECHT, D. 1994 Rectified flow of a rotating fluid along a vertical side wall. Phys. Fluids 6, 1440-1453.
32. ZHANG, X., BOYER, D. L., CHABERT D'HIÈRES, G., AELBRECHT, D. & DIDELLE, H. 1993 Rectified flow along a vertical coastline. Dyn. Atmos. Oceans 19, 115-145.
33. ZIMMERMAN, J. T. F. 1978 Topographic generation of residual circulation by oscillatory (tidal) currents. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn. 11, 34-47.