Bulletin of the American Physical Society
63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 55, Number 16
Sunday–Tuesday, November 21–23, 2010; Long Beach, California
Session NS: Invited Session: Turbulence in Strongly Stratified Flows |
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Chair: Geoffrey Spedding, University of Southern California Room: Long Beach Convention Center Grand Ballroom A |
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 10:30AM - 11:05AM |
NS.00001: Turbulence in Strongly Stratified Flows Invited Speaker: Laboratory experiments in the early 1970's ({\em e.g.}, Lin \& Pao, {\em Ann.\ Rev. Fluid Mech.}, {\bf 11}, 1979) revealed quasi-horizontal vortices in wakes of objects moving through stably-stratified fluids. These results suggested new flow dynamics, in addition to internal waves, in flows strongly affected by stable density stratification, conditions which often occur, {\em e.g.}, in the atmosphere and oceans. In the past ten years theoretical analyses, numerical simulations, laboratory experiments and some field studies have led to a much better understanding of these flows and, in particular, how they can provide pathways to three-dimensional turbulence. In this talk some of the results of this research will be discussed. [Preview Abstract] |
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