Numerical experiments on salt-finger convection

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 435-459

  Yoshida, Jiro ^a   Nagashima, Hideki ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; MIXING; OCEAN STRUCTURES; SALTS; TURBULENCE;

SALT-FINGERING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

HEAT FLUX; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALINITY;

EID: 0037849811     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(03)00032-6     Document Type: Review

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