A direct numerical study of transport and anisotropy in a stably stratified turbulent flow with uniform horizontal shear

DOI10.1023/A:1009905502092zbMath0983.76041OpenAlexW428197819MaRDI QIDQ1582605

Sutanu Sarkar, Frank G. Jacobitz

Publication date: 23 April 2002

Published in: Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1009905502092

zbMATH Keywords

anisotropygeophysical flowsdirect numerical simulationsturbulent mixinghomogeneous turbulencevertical shearturbulent dissipation ratecritical gradient Richardson numberhorizontal shearstably stratified shear flowturbulent transport coefficients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence (76F65) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05) Stratification effects in turbulence (76F45)

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