Mixing efficiency in decaying stably stratified turbulence

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-36

  Stretch, Derek D ^a   Rottman, James W ^b   Venayagamoorthy, S Karan ^a   Nomura, Keiko K ^b   Rehmann, Chris R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixing efficiency; Stable stratification; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FREQUENCY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GRID EXPERIMENT; GRID TURBULENCE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MIXING EFFICIENCY; RAPID DISTORTION THEORY; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STABLE STRATIFICATION; STRATIFIED FLOWS; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE ENERGY; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT MIXING; VELOCITY SCALE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; KINETIC ENERGY; MIXING; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EXPERIMENTS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; KINETIC ENERGY; MIXING RATIO; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL ENERGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STRATIFIED FLOW; THEORETICAL STUDY; TURBULENCE;

EID: 70350596445     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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