Fluid dynamics challenges in predicting plastic pollution transport in the ocean: A perspective

BR Sutherland, M DiBenedetto, A Kaminski… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Plastic pollution has been observed throughout the world's oceans and estuaries, whether
floating at the surface, settled in bottom sediments, washed up on beaches, or ingested by …

Settling of microplastics in mucus-rich water column: The role of biologically modified rheology of seawater

MM Mrokowska, A Krztoń-Maziopa - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Non-buoyant microplastics (MPs) sink through the marine water column, adversely affecting
the ecosystem. The manner in which MPs influence the water environment depends to a …

Oceanic Frontal Turbulence

PP Sullivan, JC McWilliams - Journal of Physical …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Upper-ocean turbulence results from a complex set of interactions between submesoscale
turbulence and local boundary layer processes. The interaction between larger-scale …

[HTML][HTML] A Turbulence Survey in the Gulf of Naples, Mediterranean Sea, during the Seasonal Destratification

F Kokoszka, F Conversano, D Iudicone… - Journal of Marine …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The seasonality of the vertical mixing at coastal sites is not well characterized yet. Here, a
time series of the dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy (ε) was obtained from weekly …

Model for the cyclonic bias of convective vortices in a rotating system

J Dingwall, JR Taylor - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
In convective fluids, small vortices develop between neighboring convective cells. Familiar
in the atmosphere in the form of dust devils and water spouts, these convective vortices have …

[HTML][HTML] 余弦高斯光束在海洋湍流中的传输特性

李沪光, 付静静, 周健阳 - Applied Physics, 2023 - hanspub.org
基于光的相干偏振的统一理论和扩展的惠更斯–菲涅耳原理, 研究了余弦高斯谢尔模型光束(
CGSM) 在海洋湍流中的传播. 推导了CGSM 光束在海洋湍流中传播的交叉谱密度的解析公式 …