Mixing and dispersion in flows dominated by rotation and buoyancy. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Herman J.H. Clercx, GertJan F. Van Heijst, editors.
• Editors: Clercx, H. J. H, 1961-; Heijst, G. J. F. van (GertJan F.)
• Contents: ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Effects of Rotation and Stratification: An Introduction""; ""1 Effects of Rotation""; ""1.1 Flow on a Spherical Planet""; ""1.2 Some Horizontal Balances""; ""1.3 How to Create Vortices in the Lab""; ""1.4 The Ekman Layer""; ""1.5 The Shallow-Water Approximation""; ""2 Density Effects""; ""2.1 Density Currents""; ""2.2 Stability""; ""2.3 Baroclinic Generation of Vorticity""; ""2.4 Boussinesq Approximation""; ""2.5 Waves in a Stratified Fluid""; ""2.6 Vortices in a Stratified Fluid""; ""3 Concluding Remarks""; ""References"" ""Turbulence and Mixing in Flows Dominated by Buoyancy""""1 Introduction""; ""2 Governing Equations""; ""2.1 Mass and Momentum Conservation""; ""2.2 Boussinesq Approximation""; ""2.3 Scaling""; ""3 Richardson Number""; ""4 Turbulent Kinetic Energy Equation""; ""5 Stirring Versus Mixing""; ""5.1 Batchelor Scale""; ""6 Stratified Bottle""; ""7 Mixing Efficiency""; ""8 Boundary Layer Similarity Theory""; ""8.1 Unstratified Boundary Layer""; ""8.2 Stratified Boundary Layer""; ""9 Layers and Interfaces""; ""9.1 Energetics""; ""10 Stratified Mixing Box Experiment"" ""11 Mixing Efficiency from Available Potential Energy""""11.1 Tall Rayleigh-Taylor Instability""; ""11.2 Mixing Efficiency in Lock Exchange Gravity Currents""; ""12 Concluding Remarks""; ""References""; ""Mixing in Stratified Lakes and Reservoirs""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Surface and Bottom Boundary Layers in Lakes""; ""2.1 The Role of Boundary Layers in Natural Waters""; ""2.2 The Turbulent Kinetic Energy Balance""; ""2.3 Vertical Structure of Wind-Induced Surface Boundary Layers""; ""2.4 Vertical Structure of the Bottom Boundary Layer"" ""2.5 Convectively-Induced Turbulence and Mixing in the Boundary Layers""""3 Stratified Turbulence in Lakes Interior""; ""4 Wind Set-up, Internal Standing Waves and Modes""; ""5 Concluding Remarks""; ""References""; ""Energy Balance in Stably-Stratified, Wall-Bounded Turbulence""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Description of the DNS Database""; ""2.1 Case C: Open-Channel Flow""; ""2.2 Case E: Capped Ekman Layer""; ""2.3 Flow Initialization""; ""3 Results""; ""3.1 Time Evolution and Turbulence Collapse""; ""3.2 Energy Budgets""; ""4 Conclusions""; ""References"" ""Some Aspects of Lagrangian Dynamics of Turbulence""""1 Introduction""; ""2 Basic Multi-scale Properties of Lagrangian Turbulence""; ""2.1 A Brief Recall of K41 Ideas in the Eulerian Framework""; ""2.2 Lagrangian K41 Phenomenology""; ""2.3 Lagrangian Dispersion""; ""3 On the Validity of Kolmogorov's Local Isotropy Hypothesis""; ""3.1 The Local Isotropy Hypothesis""; ""3.2 The Local Isotropy Hypothesis in Large-Scale Anisotropic Flows""; ""3.3 The Influence of Increasing Reynolds Number""; ""4 Turbulent Dispersion of Tracer Particles""; ""4.1 The Turbulent Pair Dispersion Problem""
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 620.1064; Engineering; Mixing; Dispersion; Turbulence; Fluid dynamics; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General); TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Reference; Dispersion; Fluid dynamics; Mixing; Turbulence; Science -- Mechanics -- Dynamics -- Fluid Dynamics; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology; Fluid mechanics; Earth sciences; Hydraulic engineering; Technology & Engineering -- Mechanical; Mechanics of fluids; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319668871; 3319668870
• Related ISBNs: 9783319668864; 3319668862
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 31, 2017).
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