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M IXING E FFICIENCY IN S TRATIFIED S HEAR F LOWS
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▪ 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. Similarly enigmatic has been an explanation of the numerical value of ∼0.2, which is observed to characterize this efficiency experimentally. We review recent work on the turbulence transition in stratified parallel flows that demonstrates that this value is not only numerically predictable but also that it is expected to be a nonmonotonic function of the Richardson number that characterizes preturbulent stratification strength. This value of the mixing efficiency appears to be characteristic of the late-time behavior of the turbulent flow that develops after an initially laminar shear flow has undergone the transition to turbulence through an intermediate instability of Kelvin-Helmholtz type.
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- Peltier, W. R., & Caulfield, C. P.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2003-01
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 135-167
- ISSN
- 0066-4189 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-4479
- OpenAlex
- W2146299840
- Cited by
- 415
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 1.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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