Browsing Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy by Subject "buoyancy-driven instability"
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Efficient mixing in stratified flows: experimental study of a Rayleigh-Taylor unstable interface within an otherwise stable stratification
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2014-09-09)Boussinesq salt-water laboratory experiments of Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI) can achieve mixing efficiencies greater than 0.75 when the unstable interface is confined between two stable stratifications. This is much ...
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Nonlinear effects in buoyancy-driven variable-density turbulence
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-01-01)We consider the time dependence of a hierarchy of scaled L²ᵐ-norms D_m,ω and D_m,θ of the vorticity ω =∇ x u and the density gradient ∇θ, where θ = log.(ρ*/ ρ*₀), in a buoyancy-driven turbulent flow as simulated by Livescu ...