Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006georl..3315608p&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 15, CiteID L15608
Physics
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Oceanography: General: Analytical Modeling And Laboratory Experiments, Oceanography: Physical: Turbulence, Diffusion, And Mixing Processes (4490), Oceanography: Physical: Upper Ocean And Mixed Layer Processes
Scientific paper
Quantitative time-dependent laboratory measurements are made of the irreversible mixing caused by the development, saturation and turbulent breakdown of Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) billows in an initially stable two-layer stratified shear flow of miscible fluids. The measurements are obtained using a light attenuation technique. Irreversible mixing is found to be strongly dependent on the life-cycle of the flow, in particular the characteristics of large-scale, quasi-two-dimensional billow merging events, which stir the flow and then trigger mixing during turbulent transition.
Caulfield C. P.
Dalziel Stuart B.
McElwaine Jim N.
Patterson M. D.
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