A numerical (LES) investigation of a shallow-water, mid-latitude, tidally-driven boundary layer

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 525-547

  Salon, Stefano ^a   Armenio, Vincenzo ^b   Crise, Alessandro ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Large eddy simulations; Oscillatory flow; Rotation; Turbulent mixing

Indexed keywords

FLOW DYNAMICS; LABORATORY SCALE; LATITUDE EFFECTS; NEUTRALLY STRATIFIED; OSCILLATING FLOWS; OSCILLATORY FLOW; OSCILLATORY FLOWS; REYNOLDS STRESS; SEMI-CYCLES; SEMI-DIURNAL; SHALLOW-WATER; SPANWISE FLOW; STOKES BOUNDARY LAYERS; TIDAL CURRENTS; TURBULENT CHARACTERISTICS; TURBULENT ENERGIES; TURBULENT MIXING; WATER COLUMNS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW SIMULATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXING; OCEAN CURRENTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATION; TURBULENCE; WATER ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXING; OSCILLATING FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATION; SHALLOW WATER; STOKES FORMULA; TIDAL CURRENT; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTICITY; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 70349588326     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-009-9122-y     Document Type: Article

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