Turbulent mixing of two-layer stratified fluid
Turbulent mixing of two-layer stratified fluid
| dc.contributor.author | Whitehead, John A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stevenson, Ian | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-02-06T15:58:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-02-06T15:58:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-11-09 | |
| dc.description | Author Posting. © American Institute of Physics, 2007. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of American Institute of Physics for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Physics of Fluids 19 (2007): 125104, doi:10.1063/1.2821913. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | A two-layer salt-stratified tank of water was mixed by turbulence generated by many excursions of a horizontally moving vertical rod. The objective is to observe the timedependent response of the mean density field for ranges of Richardson number Ri>0.9 and Reynolds Number Re>600. As the density profile of the fluid gradually evolves from a single step to a mixed state over a wide range of time, there is almost perfect collapse of all the profiles to one universal profile as a function of a similarity variable. Although the turbulent diffusion is not constant, the value in the limit of small stratification has similar magnitude to values found by others. | en |
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| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1912/2057 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2821913 | |
| dc.title | Turbulent mixing of two-layer stratified fluid | en |
| dc.type | Preprint | en |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
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