Cascades and transitions in turbulent flows

A Alexakis, L Biferale - Physics Reports, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Turbulent flows are characterized by the non-linear cascades of energy and other inviscid
invariants across a huge range of scales, from where they are injected to where they are …

Layering, instabilities, and mixing in turbulent stratified flows

CP Caulfield - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Understanding how turbulence leads to the enhanced irreversible transport of heat and
other scalars such as salt and pollutants in density-stratified fluids is a fundamental and …

Mixing efficiency in the ocean

MC Gregg, EA D'Asaro, JJ Riley… - Annual review of marine …, 2018‏ - annualreviews.org
Mixing efficiency is the ratio of the net change in potential energy to the energy expended in
producing the mixing. Parameterizations of efficiency and of related mixing coefficients are …

Mixing and transport in coastal river plumes

AR Horner-Devine, RD Hetland… - Annual Review of …, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
River plumes are generated by the flow of buoyant river water into the coastal ocean, where
they significantly influence water properties and circulation. They comprise dynamically …

[ספר][B] The turbulent ocean

SA Thorpe - 2005‏ - books.google.com
The subject of ocean turbulence is in a state of discovery and development with many
intellectual challenges. This book describes the principal dynamic processes that control the …

Small-scale hydrodynamics in lakes

A Wüest, A Lorke - Annual Review of fluid mechanics, 2003‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Recent small-scale turbulence observations allow the mixing regimes in lakes,
reservoirs, and other enclosed basins to be categorized into the turbulent surface and …

Mixing efficiency in stratified shear flows

WR Peltier, CP Caulfield - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2003‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The issue of the physical mechanism (s) that control the efficiency with which the
density field in stably stratified fluid is mixed by turbulent processes has remained enigmatic …

Second-order turbulence closure models for geophysical boundary layers. A review of recent work

L Umlauf, H Burchard - Continental Shelf Research, 2005‏ - Elsevier
Recent contributions to second-order turbulence modelling are reviewed with an emphasis
on models of the coastal ocean. Classical and recent turbulence models are reformulated …

Density stratification, turbulence, but how much mixing?

GN Ivey, KB Winters, JR Koseff - Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 2008‏ - annualreviews.org
We examine observations of turbulence in the geophysical environment, primarily from
oceans but also from lakes, in light of theory and experimental studies undertaken in the …

Reduced mixing generates oscillations and chaos in the oceanic deep chlorophyll maximum

J Huisman, NN Pham Thi, DM Karl, B Sommeijer - Nature, 2006‏ - nature.com
Deep chlorophyll maxima (DCMs) are widespread in large parts of the world's oceans,,,,,,.
These deep layers of high chlorophyll concentration reflect a compromise of phytoplankton …