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 …

Anthropogenic mixing in seasonally stratified shelf seas by offshore wind farm infrastructure

RM Dorrell, CJ Lloyd, BJ Lincoln, TP Rippeth… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The offshore wind energy sector has rapidly expanded over the past two decades, providing
a renewable energy solution for coastal nations. Sector development has been led in …

Scaling analysis and simulation of strongly stratified turbulent flows

G Brethouwer, P Billant, E Lindborg… - Journal of Fluid …, 2007 - cambridge.org
Direct numerical simulations of stably and strongly stratified turbulent flows with Reynolds
number Re≫ 1 and horizontal Froude number Fh≪ 1 are presented. The results are …

Self-similarity of strongly stratified inviscid flows

P Billant, JM Chomaz - Physics of fluids, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
It is well-known that strongly stratified flows are organized into a layered pancake structure
in which motions are mostly horizontal but highly variable in the vertical direction. However …

Experimental evidence for a new instability of a vertical columnar vortex pair in a strongly stratified fluid

P Billant, JM Chomaz - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2000 - cambridge.org
This paper shows that a long vertical columnar vortex pair created by a double flap
apparatus in a strongly stratified fluid is subjected to an instability distinct from the Crow and …

Internal wave turbulence in a stratified fluid with and without eigenmodes of the experimental domain

N Lanchon, DO Mora, E Monsalve, PP Cortet - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
We present laboratory experiments on turbulence in a linearly stratified fluid driven by an
ensemble of internal gravity waves which approaches statistical homogeneity and …

Similarity scaling and vorticity structure in high-Reynolds-number stably stratified turbulent wakes

PJ Diamessis, GR Spedding… - Journal of Fluid …, 2011 - cambridge.org
The mean velocity profile scaling and the vorticity structure of a stably stratified, initially
turbulent wake of a towed sphere are studied numerically using a high-accuracy spectral …

Stratified turbulence at the buoyancy scale

ML Waite - Physics of Fluids, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Numerical simulations of forced stratified turbulence are presented, and the dependence on
horizontal resolution and grid aspect ratio is investigated. Simulations are designed to …

Mixing in forced stratified turbulence and its dependence on large-scale forcing

CJ Howland, JR Taylor, CP Caulfield - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
We study direct numerical simulations of turbulence arising from the interaction of an initial
background shear, a linear background stratification and an external body force. In each …

The evolution of coherent vortical structures in increasingly turbulent stratified shear layers

X Jiang, A Lefauve, SB Dalziel… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
We study the morphology of Eulerian vortical structures and their interaction with density
interfaces in increasingly turbulent stably stratified shear layers. We analyse the three …