Direct numerical simulation of salt sheets and turbulence in a double-diffusive shear layer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2007, Pages

  Kimura, Satoshi ^a   Smyth, William ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; MOMENTUM; SEAWATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TURBULENT FLOW;

SCHMIDT NUMBER; STRATIFIED FLOW;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FLOW STABILITY; SEAWATER; SHEAR FLOW; STRATIFIED FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TURBULENCE;

EID: 38549089025     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031935     Document Type: Article

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