Available potential energy and exergy in stratified fluids

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2013, Pages 35-58

  Tailleux, Rémi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

available energetics; buoyancy forcing; dynamics thermodynamics coupling; thermodynamic efficiencies; thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE ENERGETICS; BINARY FLUIDS; BUOYANCY FORCING; CLASSICAL THERMODYNAMICS; CONSTANT ENERGY; DIABATIC HEATING; ENERGY AND EXERGY; ENERGY CYCLE; GENERATION RATE; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID; REFERENCE STATE; SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; STRATIFIED FLUID; THERMODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; TURBULENT MIXING; VOLUME INTEGRALS;

ENTROPY; EXERGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

POTENTIAL ENERGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BUOYANCY FORCING; COOLING; DECOMPOSITION; DIABATIC PROCESS; ENERGETICS; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENTROPY; EXERGY; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEATING; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; POTENTIAL ENERGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84872241211     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-011212-140620     Document Type: Review

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