Turbulent entrainment at the density interface of a two-layer stably stratified fluid system
Abstract
The report deals with entrainment at the density interface of a stable two-layer stratified fluid, resulting from the application and maintenance of a constant shear stress at the top of the upper layer. The investigation is the continuation of turbulence experiments reported earlier by Kato and Phillips (1969). The results seem to resolve the existing controversy on which Richardson number law the entrainment should follow.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- August 1975
- Bibcode:
- 1975STIN...7619390K
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Stratification;
- Entrainment;
- Fluid Flow;
- Ocean Currents;
- Stratified Flow;
- Turbulence;
- Fluid Dynamics;
- Heat Transfer;
- Momentum Transfer;
- Richardson Number;
- Shear Stress;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer