Stratified turbulence at the buoyancy scale

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Waite, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; TURBULENCE;

FLUID SIMULATIONS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; KELVIN- HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; LARGE-SCALE VORTICES; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; ROBUST SIMULATIONS; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 79960025411     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3599699     Document Type: Article

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