On mixing across an interface in stably stratified fluid

DOI10.1017/S0022112086000125zbMath0593.76110MaRDI QIDQ3724022

Xuequan E, Emil J. Hopfinger

Publication date: 1986

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

zbMATH Keywords

turbulent kinetic energylocal scalinglinearly stratified fluidentrainment rateradiated energytwo-layered fluid systemconstant-gradient fluid systemseddy recoilentrainment relationinternal-wave breakingmean-shear-free turbulenceMixed-layer deepening in stratified fluidmixed-layer deepening ratemixing on a buoyancy timescaleoscillating gridturbulent-eddy overturning timescale

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Turbulence (76F99) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Cites Work

• A theory of mixing in a stably stratified fluid