Mixing efficiency in stratified shear flows

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 35, Issue , 2003, Pages 135-167

  Peltier, W R ^a   Caulfield, C P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Stratified flows; Transition

Indexed keywords

LAMINAR FLOW; MIXING; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TURBULENCE;

STRATIFICATION STRENGTH;

SHEAR FLOW;

EFFICIENCY; MIXING; SHEAR FLOW; STRATIFIED FLOW; TRANSITION FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0344272176     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.35.101101.161144     Document Type: Article

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