Turbulent mixing plays a major role in enabling the large scale ocean circulation. The accuracy of mixing rates estimated from observations depends on our understanding of basic fluid mechanical processes underlying the ...

We consider numerically the transition to turbulence and associated mixing in stratified shear flows with initial velocity distribution $\bar U$(z, 0)e$_{x}$ = U$_{0}$e$_{x}$ tanh(z/d) and initial density distribution $\bar ...