Growth and decay of turbulence in a stably stratified shear flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112088002332zbMath0653.76038MaRDI QIDQ3799742

J. J. Rohr, C. W. Van Atta, E. C. Itsweire, K. N. Helland

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

evolving, stably stratified turbulent shear flowten-layer, closed-loop, salt-stratified water channel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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