Diapycnal mixing of passive tracers by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities

DOI10.1017/JFM.2020.483MaRDI QIDQ5115984zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 21 August 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2020.483

zbMATH Keywords

stratified turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Stratification effects in turbulence (76F45)

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