Fluid mixing in stratified gravity currents: The prandtl mixing length

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  Odier, P ^a,b   Chen, J ^a   Rivera, M K ^a   Ecke, R E ^a  

^a CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE GRADIENTS; DENSITY FLUXES; DENSITY GRADIENTS; DENSITY MEASUREMENTS; EDDY-VISCOSITY MODELS; FLUID MIXING; GRAVITY CURRENTS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; MEAN VELOCITIES; MIXING LENGTHS; RICHARDSON NUMBERS; STRATIFIED FLOWS; TAYLOR-REYNOLDS NUMBERS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; TURBULENT SHEARS; VERTICAL FLUXES; VERTICAL MIXING;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

MIXING;

EID: 64849087989     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.134504     Document Type: Article

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