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Article Dans Une Revue Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans Année : 2001

Mixing in weakly turbulent stably stratified flows

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We analyse mixing in three weakly turbulent stably stratified flows, namely low amplitude breaking internal gravity waves, stably stratified homogeneous decaying turbulence and a stably stratified unstable shear layer. We use the method proposed by Winter et al. [J. Fluid Mech. 289 (1995) 115], which provides an exact expression of the diffusive flux of density responsible for mixing. When the three flows have stabilized and organized into quasi-horizontal layers, we show that the diffusion coefficient behaves linearly as a function of a dynamical parameter that characterizes the largest scales of the flow (a Froude number squared or the inverse of a Richardson number) and we provide a simple expression of this linear law.
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Chantal Staquet, Pascale Bouruet-Aubertot. Mixing in weakly turbulent stably stratified flows. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 2001, 34, pp.81-102. ⟨10.1016/S0377-0265(01)00062-8⟩. ⟨hal-00264603⟩
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