On the turbulent Prandtl number in homogeneous stably stratified turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 644, Issue , 2010, Pages 359-369

  Venayagamoorthy, Subhas K ^a,b   Stretch, Derek D ^b  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; DIGITAL STORAGE; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TIME MEASUREMENT; TURBULENCE;

OVERTURNING LENGTH; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEARED TURBULENCE; STRATIFIED FLOWS; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE CLOSURES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT PRANDTL NUMBER;

PRANDTL NUMBER;

BUOYANCY FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MODELING; FLOW STABILITY; FLUID MECHANICS; HOMOGENEITY; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RICHARDSON NUMBER; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STRATIFIED FLOW; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 77952375068     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200999293X     Document Type: Article

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