Entrainment: Local and non-local turbulence models with double diffusion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Canuto, V M ^a,b   Dubovikov, M S ^a,c   Cheng, Y ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TURBULENT FLOW;

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; GRAVITY CURRENTS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; TURBULENCE MODELS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DOUBLE DIFFUSION; ENTRAINMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TURBULENCE;

EID: 30744451157     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023771     Document Type: Article

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