Dispersion of tracers in the deep ocean

DOI10.1017/S0022112082002985zbMath0523.76076OpenAlexW2108682100MaRDI QIDQ3674281

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Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112082002985

zbMATH Keywords

deep oceandisparity between horizontal and vertical rates of dispersionexact solutions of advection-diffusion equation for contaminantinertial frequency oscillationslinearly shearing, time varying, flowlong term diffusivitypoint discharge of dyevertical streak of dye

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Diffusion and convection (76R99)

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