Density Stratification, Turbulence, but How Much Mixing?

From MaRDI portal
Publication:5459698


DOI10.1146/annurev.fluid.39.050905.110314zbMath1136.76026MaRDI QIDQ5459698

Gregory N. Ivey, Kraig B. Winters, Jeffrey R. Koseff

Publication date: 29 April 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.fluid.39.050905.110314


86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76F25: Turbulent transport, mixing

76-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics

76F45: Stratification effects in turbulence


Related Items

Self-organized criticality of turbulence in strongly stratified mixing layers, Complex dynamics in a stratified lid-driven square cavity flow, Scaling laws for mixing and dissipation in unforced rotating stratified turbulence, Nonlinear evolution of linear optimal perturbations of strongly stratified shear layers, Stratified shear instability in a field of pre-existing turbulence, Diagnosing diabatic effects on the available energy of stratified flows in inertial and non-inertial frames, Energy balance and mixing between waves and eddies in stably stratified turbulence, The dynamics of stratified horizontal shear flows at low Péclet number, Role of overturns in optimal mixing in stratified mixing layers, Mixing efficiency in stratified turbulence, Turbulent mixing due to the Holmboe wave instability at high Reynolds number, Parametric instabilities of a stratified shear layer, Decomposition of available potential energy for networks of connected volumes, Layering and vertical transport in sheared double-diffusive convection in the diffusive regime, Parameterization of mixing in stratified open channel flow, Low-Reynolds-number oscillating boundary layers on adiabatic slopes, Turbulence in forced stratified shear flows, Goldilocks mixing in oceanic shear-induced turbulent overturns, Available potential energy in Rayleigh–Bénard convection, Numerical study of vertical dispersion by stratified turbulence, Irreversible mixing by unstable periodic orbits in buoyancy dominated stratified turbulence, A note on analytic solutions for entraining stratified gravity currents, Vortex-ring-induced stratified mixing: mixing model, Testing linear marginal stability in stratified shear layers, Mixing and entrainment are suppressed in inclined gravity currents, Evolution of thermally stratified turbulent open channel flow after removal of the heat source, Regime transitions and energetics of sustained stratified shear flows, How we compute N matters to estimates of mixing in stratified flows, Predicting vortex merging and ensuing turbulence characteristics in shear layers from initial conditions, Energy budget in internal wave attractor experiments, Two-layer stratified flows over pronounced obstacles at low-to-intermediate Froude numbers, Waves and vortices in the inverse cascade regime of stratified turbulence with or without rotation, A statistical mechanics approach to mixing in stratified fluids, Local versus volume-integrated turbulence and mixing in breaking internal waves on slopes, Self-similar mixing in stratified plane Couette flow for varying Prandtl number, Pulsating turbulence in a marginally unstable stratified shear flow, Rapid gravitational adjustment of horizontal shear flows, Spontaneous layering in stratified turbulent Taylor–Couette flow, Rotating planar gravity currents at moderate Rossby numbers: fully resolved simulations and shallow-water modelling, Quantifying mixing and available potential energy in vertically periodic simulations of stratified flows, Critical balance and scaling of strongly stratified turbulence at low Prandtl number, Intermittency and critical mixing in internally heated stratified channel flow, Superharmonic and triadic resonances in a horizontally oscillated stably stratified square cavity, A data-driven method for modelling dissipation rates in stratified turbulence, The effects of boundary proximity on Kelvin–Helmholtz instability and turbulence, The stratified ocean model with adaptive refinement (SOMAR), Large eddy simulation of turbulent statistical and transport properties in stably stratified flows, Direct numerical simulations of stably stratified decaying unforced turbulence, Fractional solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear higher-order extended KdV equation in a stratified shear flow. I, Simulation of stably stratified turbulent channel flow using residual-based variational multiscale method and isogeometric analysis, Residual-based closure model for density-stratified incompressible turbulent flows, The intermittency boundary in stratified plane Couette flow, Transport and mixing of density in a continuously stratified shear layer, Entrainment and mixing dynamics of surface-stress-driven stratified flow in a cylinder, An analytical theory of the buoyancy–Kolmogorov subrange transition in turbulent flows with stable stratification, Mixing efficiency in natural flows, On the flux Richardson number in stably stratified turbulence, Non-invasive turbulent mixing across a density interface in a turbulent Taylor–Couette flow, Internal wave generation by oscillation of a sphere, with application to internal tides, Dynamics of vorticity defects in stratified shear flow, Direct numerical simulation of stationary homogeneous stratified sheared turbulence, Turbulent shear layers in a uniformly stratified background: DNS at high Reynolds number, A prediction for the optimal stratification for turbulent mixing, On the turbulent Prandtl number in homogeneous stably stratified turbulence