Reduction of vertical transport in two-dimensional stably stratified forced shear flows

DOI10.1080/03091920600642048zbMath1206.76024OpenAlexW2036058597MaRDI QIDQ3081208

Nathalie Toqué, François Lignières, A. P. Vincent

Publication date: 5 March 2011

Published in: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03091920600642048

zbMATH Keywords

shear flowsturbulent diffusionstable stratification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Convection in hydrodynamic stability (76E06) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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