Large Eddy Simulation of Convective Entrainment in Linearly and Discretely Stratified Fluids
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Regimes of convective entrainment in linearly and discretely stratified fluids are investigated by means of a high-resolution LES in conjunction with relevant data from atmospheric, laboratory, numerical, and analytical studies of penetrative convection. Relationships between parameters of entrainment in the discretely stratified fluid are shown to be rather different to their counterparts in the case of equilibrium entrainment in the linearly stratified fluid.
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