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1 online resource |
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CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and lectures, 0254-1971 ; volume 580 |
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Courses and lectures ; v. 580
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| 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 |
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Turbulence and Mixing in Flows Dominated by Buoyancy1 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 |
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11 Mixing Efficiency from Available Potential Energy11.1 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 |
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2.5 Convectively-Induced Turbulence and Mixing in the Boundary Layers3 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 |
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Some Aspects of Lagrangian Dynamics of Turbulence1 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 31, 2017) |
| Subject |
Mixing.
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Dispersion.
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Turbulence.
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Fluid dynamics.
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Hydrodynamics
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dispersion (process)
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Fluid mechanics.
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Earth sciences.
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Mechanics of fluids.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General)
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Reference.
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Dispersion
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Fluid dynamics
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Mixing
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Turbulence
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clercx, H. J. H., 1961- editor.
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Heijst, G. J. F. van (GertJan F.), editor.
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| ISBN |
9783319668871 |
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3319668870 |
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