Mixing in a moderately sheared salt-fingering layer

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1364-1384

  Smyth, W D ^a   Kimura, S ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixing; Shear structure flows

Indexed keywords

BULK RICHARDSON NUMBER; DENSITY RATIO; DISSIPATION RATIO; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; ENERGY SOURCE; FLUX HEAT; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; LINEAR GROWTH RATE; PAIRING INSTABILITY; SALT FINGERS; SCALINGS; SECONDARY INSTABILITY; SHEAR INSTABILITY; SHEAR LAYER; SHEAR STRUCTURE; SUBHARMONICS; THIN LAYERS; TURBULENT MIXING; TURBULENT STATE;

STABILITY; TURBULENT FLOW;

MIXING;

ESTIMATION METHOD; KELVIN-HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY; MIXED LAYER; MIXING RATIO; MOMENTUM; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SALT; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE; WATER MASS;

EID: 79960350986     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4611.1     Document Type: Article

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