On the structure of Langmuir turbulence

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 31, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 105-119

  Teixeira, M A C ^a   Belcher, S E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Langmuir circulation; Mixed layer; Rapid distortion theory; Stokes drift; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERFACE; DECORRELATIONS; DRIFT TURBULENCE; EDDY DECAYS; HORIZONTAL VORTICITY; KINEMATIC SIMULATIONS; LANGMUIR CIRCULATIONS; LANGMUIR TURBULENCE; LANGMUIRS; LENGTH SCALE; LINEAR MODEL; MEAN SHEAR; MIXED LAYER; NONLINEAR PROCESS; PHYSICAL PICTURES; RAPID DISTORTION THEORY; SCALINGS; SHEAR TURBULENCES; STATISTICALLY STEADY STATE; STRAIN FIELDS; STREAKY STRUCTURE; STREAMWISE VELOCITY; STREAMWISE VORTICES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TWO-COMPONENT; VERTICAL VELOCITY; VERTICAL VORTICITY; VORTICITY EQUATION; WIND-DRIVEN MIXED LAYERS;

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; KINETIC ENERGY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SIMULATORS; SURFACE WAVES; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTICITY;

TURBULENCE;

KINEMATICS; LANGMUIR CIRCULATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENCE; VORTICITY; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

EID: 71849111660     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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