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 …

An analytical theory of the buoyancy–Kolmogorov subrange transition in turbulent flows with stable stratification

S Sukoriansky, B Galperin - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The buoyancy subrange of stably stratified turbulence is defined as an intermediate range of
scales larger than those in the inertial subrange. This subrange encompasses the crossover …

Physics of Stratocumulus Top (POST): turbulent mixing across cap** inversion

SP Malinowski, H Gerber, JL Plante… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - acp.copernicus.org
High spatial resolution measurements of temperature and liquid water content,
accompanied by moderate-resolution measurements of humidity and turbulence, collected …

Turbulent shear layers in a uniformly stratified background: DNS at high Reynolds number

A VanDine, HT Pham, S Sarkar - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Turbulent shear layers in a uniformly stratified background: DNS at high Reynolds number
Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2021), vol. 916, A42, doi:10.1017/jfm.2021.212 Turbulent shear layers …

Shear-induced mixing in geophysical flows: does the route to turbulence matter to its efficiency?

A Mashayek, WR Peltier - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013 - cambridge.org
Motivated by the importance of diapycnal mixing parameterizations in large-scale ocean
general circulation models, we provide a detailed analysis of high-Reynolds-number mixing …

Role of overturns in optimal mixing in stratified mixing layers

A Mashayek, CP Caulfield, WR Peltier - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
Turbulent mixing plays a major role in enabling the large-scale ocean circulation. The
accuracy of mixing rates estimated from observations depends on our understanding of …

Large-scale characteristics of a stably stratified turbulent shear layer

T Watanabe, K Nagata - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Implicit large eddy simulation is performed to investigate large-scale characteristics of a
temporally evolving, stably stratified turbulent shear layer arising from the Kelvin–Helmholtz …

Kinetic energy dynamics in forced, homogeneous, and axisymmetric stably stratified turbulence

S Almalkie, SM de Bruyn Kops - Journal of Turbulence, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Direct numerical simulations with up to 4096× 4096× 2048 grid points are used to study the
dynamics of kinetic energy in forced, homogeneous, and axisymmetric stably stratified flow …

A localized turbulent mixing layer in a uniformly stratified environment

T Watanabe, JJ Riley, K Nagata, R Onishi… - Journal of Fluid …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Localized turbulence bounded by non-turbulent flow in a uniformly stratified environment is
studied with direct numerical simulations of stably stratified shear layers. Of particular …

Physics of Stratocumulus Top (POST): turbulence characteristics

JL Plante, Y Ma, K Nurowska, H Gerber… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Turbulence observed during the Physics of Stratocumulus Top (POST) research campaign is
analyzed. Using in-flight measurements of dynamic and thermodynamic variables at the …