Relationship between vertical shear rate and kinetic energy dissipation rate in stably stratified flows

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Hebert, David A ^a   de Bruyn Kops, Stephen M ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

BUOYANCY REYNOLDS NUMBER; DISSIPATION RATE; KINETIC ENERGY DISSIPATION; STABLY STRATIFIED FLOWS; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE; VERTICAL SHEAR RATE;

KINETIC ENERGY;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; KINETIC ENERGY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRATIFIED FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 33646444911     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025071     Document Type: Article

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