Mixing by shear instability at high Reynolds number

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Geyer, W R ^a   Lavery, A C ^a   Scully, M E ^b   Trowbridge, J H ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

DENSITY STRUCTURES; DOMINANT MECHANISM; FLUID MOTIONS; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RELATIVELY LOW REYNOLDS NUMBERS; REYNOLDS; ROLLING UP; SHEAR INSTABILITY; SHEAR ZONE; STRATIFIED OCEAN; TRANSITION TO TURBULENCE;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

BOUNDARY LAYER; FLUID DYNAMICS; MIXING; OVERTURN; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 78649669290     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045272     Document Type: Article

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