Abstract Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instabilities are well-known
pathways towards turbulent mixing layers, in many cases characterized by significant mass …

Understanding how turbulence leads to the enhanced irreversible transport of heat and
other scalars such as salt and pollutants in density-stratified fluids is a fundamental and …

Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics provides an introductory-level exploration of
geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD), the principles governing air and water flows on large …

For several decades, jets and fronts have been known from observations to be significant
sources of internal gravity waves in the atmosphere. Motivations to investigate these waves …

The subject of ocean turbulence is in a state of discovery and development with many
intellectual challenges. This book describes the principal dynamic processes that control the …

Recent theoretical, experimental, and numerical investigations of stratified-fluid turbulent
mixing are reviewed, and sample results are presented in tables, graphs, and photographs …

▪ Abstract The issue of the physical mechanism (s) that control the efficiency with which the
density field in stably stratified fluid is mixed by turbulent processes has remained enigmatic …

Turbulence resulting from Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in layers of localized stratification and
shear is studied by means of direct numerical simulation. Our objective is to present a …

The results of a laboratory experiment designed to study turbulent entrainment at sheared
density interfaces are described. A stratified shear layer, across which a velocity difference …

We investigate the detailed nature of the 'mixing transition'through which turbulence may
develop in both homogeneous and stratified free shear layers. Our focus is upon the …