Bulletin of the American Physical Society
72nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 64, Number 13
Saturday–Tuesday, November 23–26, 2019; Seattle, Washington
Session F03: Invited Talk: Open questions in turbulent stratified mixing: Do we even know what we do not know? |
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Chair: Peter Diamessis, Cornell University Room: 6e |
Sunday, November 24, 2019 2:43PM - 3:18PM |
F03.00001: Open questions in turbulent stratified mixing: Do we even know what we do not know? Invited Speaker: C. P. Caulfield Understanding how turbulence leads to the enhanced irreversible transport of heat and other scalars (such as salt and pollutants) in density-stratified fluids is a fundamental and central problem in geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics. There is a wide range of highly important applications, not least the description and parameterization of diapycnal transport in the world's oceans, a key area of uncertainty in climate modelling. Recently, due not least to the proliferation of data obtained through direct observation, numerical simulation and laboratory experimentation, there has been an explosion in research activity directed at improving community understanding, modelling and parameterization of the subtle interplay between energy conversion pathways, turbulence, and irreversible mixing in density-stratified fluids. However, as I will discuss in this talk, there are still leading order open questions and areas of profound uncertainty concerning turbulent stratified mixing. Therefore, I will present a personal perspective on some priorities for further research into this hugely complex, important and fascinating fluid dynamical challenge. [Preview Abstract] |
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