Bulletin of the American Physical Society
69th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 61, Number 20
Sunday–Tuesday, November 20–22, 2016; Portland, Oregon
Session K40: Settling and Swimming in Density Stratified FluidsInvited
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Chair: Michael Plesniak, George Washington University Room: Portland Ballroom 253-258-254-257 |
Monday, November 21, 2016 3:10PM - 3:45PM |
K40.00001: Settling and swimming in density stratified fluids Invited Speaker: Arezoo Ardekani Many aquatic environments are stratified, characterized by regions of vertical variation in fluid density caused by gradients in temperature or salinity. In oceans and lakes, intense biological activity and accumulation of particles and organisms are associated with pycnoclines and the occurrence of important environmental and oceanographic processes is correlated with stratification. We explore the effects of stratification on the fundamental hydrodynamics of small organisms, settling particles, and rising drops. These results demonstrate an unexpected effect of buoyancy, potentially affecting a broad range of processes at pycnoclines in oceans and lakes. In particular, stratification has a major effect on the flow field, energy expenditure and nutrient uptake of small organisms. We show that elongation affects both the settling orientation and the settling rate of particles in stratified fluids, which will have direct consequences on the vertical flux of particulate matter and carbon flux in the ocean. [Preview Abstract] |
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