Lagrangian mixing in decaying stably stratified turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 564, Issue , 2006, Pages 197-226

  Venayagamoorthy, Subhas K ^a,b   Stretch, Derek D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIFFUSION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING;

DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; LAGRANGIAN MIXING; SMALL-SCALE MIXING; VERTICAL DISPERSION COEFFICIENTS;

TURBULENCE;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIFFUSION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; TURBULENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID MECHANICS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 33748881583     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006001510     Document Type: Article

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