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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/5328| Title: | Experiments on layer formation in stratified shear flow |
| Keywords: | Stratified shear flow Kelvin-Helmholtz instability Layer structure |
| Publisher: | CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM) |
| Description: | Publicación online disponible en: http://www.icm.csic.es/scimar/index.php We discuss the experimental methodology and present the results of several experiments on the onset and growth of instabilities in stratified shear flow. Our results include the assessment of the effective diffusivity prior to the development of the Kelvin-Helmholtz (K-H) type instability and the measurement of the velocity field. This allows us to determine that the onset of the instability takes place when the Richardson number is close to 0.25, this value slightly decreasing with increasing initial interface thickness. The formation of a fine layered structure at the interface is suggested by density profiles taken immediately after the generation of K-H billows, but the size of the full interface as well as the layers themselves decrease in the following few seconds. We hypothesize that the time scale of the K-H billows in our laboratory experiments is so short that there is no time for added mixing to further distribute and smoothen the initial layer structure. This work has been supported by the Spanish government throught CICYT´s grant number MAR96-1893. Peer reviewed |
| URI: | http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/5328 |
| Other Identifiers: | Scientia Marina 65(Suppl.1): 117-126 (2001) 0214-8358 (print edition) 1886-8134 (online edition) http://hdl.handle.net/10261/5328 10.3989/scimar.2001.65s1117 |
| Appears in Collections: | Digital Csic |
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