A numerical study on the formation of a thermocline in shear-free turbulence

DOI10.1063/1.858098MaRDI QIDQ5752172zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 1991

Published in Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.858098

zbMATH Keywords

numerical modelturbulent kinetic energyshear-free turbulenceformation of a thermoclinestabilizing buoyancy flux

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Turbulence (76F99)

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