The Effect of Stable Stratification on Turbulence Anisotropy in Uniformly Sheared Flow
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Direct numerical simulation of uniform shear flow is used to study the anisotropy of fluctuating motion in a stably stratified medium with uniform mean shear. Turbulence is found to be three dimensional over a wjde range of gradient Richardson numbers in the two Bows investigated here: vertical mean shear ($$-) and horizontal mean shear (g). The role of the turbulent F’roude number in establishing the regime of stratified turbulence observed here is described. The fluctuating velocity gradients are examined. The vertical of streamwise velocity is found to dominate the other components of turbulent dissipation in both horizontal and vertical shear flows. @ 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords-stratified turbulence, Geophysical flows, Direct simulation, Ocean microstructure.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003