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Turbulent Overturns in Stratified Flows | |
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is fluid turbulence. |
-- GENERAL INFORMATION --
· Thorpe, S.A., 1987, "Transition phenomena and the development of turbulence in stratified fluids," J. Geophys. Res. 92, 5231-5245.
· Gregg, M.C., 1987, "Diapycnal mixing in the thermocline: a review," J. Geophys. Res. 92, 5249-5286.
· DeSilva, I.P.D., H.J.S. Fernando, F. Eaton, and D. Hebert, 1996, "Evolution of Kelvin-Helmholtz billows in nature and laboratory," Earth and Planet. Sci. Lttrs. 143, 217-231.
-- INITIAL INSTABILITY --
· Kundu, P.K., 1990, Fluid Mechanics, 638 pp., Academic Press, Chapter 11.
-- DEVELOPMENT OF TURBULENCE --
· Caulfield, C.P., and W.R. Peltier, 1994, "Three-dimensionalization of the stratified mixing layer," Phys. Fluids 6, 3803-3805.
-- COMPLETE LIFE CYCLE OF A TURBULENT OVERTURN --
· Smyth, W.D., J.N. Moum, and D.R. Caldwell, 2001, "The efficiency of mixing in turbulent patches: inferences from direct simulations and microstructure observations," J. Phys. Oceanogr. 31, 1969-1992.
· Klaassen, G.P., and W.R. Peltier, 1991, "The influence of stratification on secondary instability in free shear layers," J. Fluid Mech. 227, 71-106.
· Corcos, G.M., and S.J. Lin, 1984, "The mixing layer: deterministic models of a turbulent flow. Part 2. The origin of the three-dimensional motion," J. Fluid Mech. 139, 67-95.
· Smyth, W.D., Turbulence Theory and Modeling. http://roach.coas.oregonstate.edu/Modeling/
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