The effect of nonvertical shear on turbulence in a stably stratified medium

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1158-1168

  Jacobitz, Frank G ^a   Sarkar, Sutanu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRANDTL NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; VELOCITY;

KINETIC ENERGY; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR RATE; STRATIFICATION EFFECT; TRANSPORT EQUATIONS;

TURBULENCE;

EID: 0032070334     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869640     Document Type: Article

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