An explanation of the origin of intermittency in the fully developed turbulence remains one of the main open problems of theoretical hydrodynamics. Quantitatively, intermittency is measured by deviations from Kolmogorov’s scaling of the velocity correlators. Below, we shall describe a recent progress in the understanding of intermittency in a simple system describing the passive advection of a ...

This paper proposes the use of specially generated 3D procedural textures for visualizing steady state 2D flow fields. We use the flow field to advect and animate the texture over time. _owever, using standard texture advection techniques and arbitrary textures will introduce some undesirable effects such as: (a) expanding texture from a critical source point, (b) streaking pattern from the bou...

We propose a novel approach for a dense texture-based visualization of vector fields on curved surfaces. Our texture advection mechanism relies on a Lagrangian particle tracing that is simultaneously computed in the physical space of the object and in the device space of the image plane. This approach retains the benefits of previous image-space techniques, such as output sensitivity, independe...

This article proposes a method to identify blocking onset and decay by means of two stability indicators: enstrophy advection and its integral. The key to this technique is the use of local Lyapunov exponents for the barotropic vorticity equation, which can be approximated by the integral of enstrophy (IRE) over a fixed, finite region. The IRE can then be viewed as a measure of stability. Howev...

The linear temperature trend of the last 40 yr (1955–94) in the upper Pacific Ocean above 400 m is studied using an objectively analyzed dataset and simulations of an ocean general circulation model. Both the data and simulations suggest a warming trend in the western tropical Pacific (108S–108N) near the surface and in the eastern tropical Pacific above 400 m but a cooling trend in the thermoc...

In this paper, we address the problem of modeling fish population movements. We first consider a description of movements at the level of individuals. An individual-based model is formulated as a biased random walk model in which the velocity of each fish has both a deterministic and a stochastic component. These components are function of a habitat suitability index, h, and its spatial gradien...

In this paper we describe a general purpose, graphics processing unit (GP-GPU)-based approach for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) within advection-reactiondiffusion models. The GP-GPU-based approach provides a platform for solving PDEs in parallel and can thus significantly reduce solution times over traditional CPU implementations. This allows for a more efficient exploration of ...

subsurface drainage systems are used to control the depth of the water table and to reduce or prevent soil salinity. water flow in these systems is described by the boussinesq equation, and the advection-dispersion equation coupled with the boussinesq equation is used to study the solute transport. the objective of this study was to propose a finite difference solution of the advection-dispersi...

We investigate the response of convection to idealized pertur-4 bations in the thermodynamic environment in simulations which parame-5 terize the large scale circulations using the weak temperature gradient (WTG) 6 approximation. The perturbations include a combination of modifying the 7 environmental moisture and atmospheric stability via imposing anomalies 8 in reference moisture and temperat...

In the frame of a three-layer, quasi-geostrophic analytical model of an f -plane geophysical flow, the Lagrangian advection induced by the interaction of a monopole vortex with an isolated topographic feature is addressed. Two different cases when the monopole is located either within the upper or the middle layer are of our interest. In the bottom layer, there is a delta-function topographic f...