Growth and decay of turbulence in a stably stratified shear flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112088002332zbMath0653.76038MaRDI QIDQ3799742

C. W. Van Atta, J. J. Rohr, 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 flow; ten-layer, closed-loop, salt-stratified water channel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76F10: Shear flows and turbulence

76V05: Reaction effects in flows

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

Related Items

Dynamics of a stratified shear layer above a region of uniform stratification, Evolution of an initially turbulent stratified shear layer, Time scales of stratified turbulent flows and relations between second-order closure parameters and flow numbers, The effect of nonvertical shear on turbulence in a stably stratified medium, Analysis of Reynolds stress equations for stratified rotating homogeneous shear flow, The effect of stable stratification on turbulence anisotropy in uniformly sheared flow, The effect of stable stratification and thermophoresis on fine particle deposition in a bounded turbulent flow, Mixing in a stably stratified medium by horizontal shear near vertical walls, A possible explanation of countergradient fluxes in homogeneous turbulence, Reduction of vertical transport in two-dimensional stably stratified forced shear flows, Turbulence and internal waves in stably-stratified channel flow with temperature-dependent fluid properties, A comparison of the turbulence evolution in a stratified fluid with vertical or horizontal shear, Numerical investigation of the entrainment and mixing processes in neutral and stably-stratified mixing layers, Length scales of turbulence in stably stratified mixing layers, On the equilibrium states predicted by second moment models in rotating, stably stratified homogeneous shear flow, A Lagrangian stochastic model for dispersion in stratified turbulence, Mixing and available potential energy in stratified flows, On the turbulent Prandtl number in homogeneous stably stratified turbulence, A numerical study of the evolution and structure of homogeneous stably stratified sheared turbulence

Cites Work

• The production of uniform shear flow in a wind tunnel
• Turbulent transport of heat and momentum from an infinite rough plane
• Small-scale variation of convected quantities like temperature in turbulent fluid Part 1. General discussion and the case of small conductivity
• Turbulence spectra from a tidal channel
• The universal equilibrium spectra of turbulent velocity and scalar fields
• An experimental study of turbulence in a density-stratified shear flow
• On the Spectrum of Isotropic Temperature Fluctuations in an Isotropic Turbulence