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PARET, JEROME. "Turbulence bidimensionnelle et dispersion turbulente : etude experimentale." Paris 6, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA066384.
Full textSung, Kyung-Sub. "Turbulent dispersion in strongly stratified turbulence." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.582577.
Full textLe, Roy Pascal. "Cascade inverse et dispersion turbulente en turbulence bidimensionnelle." Phd thesis, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, 1988. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00529772.
Full textAlves, Portela Felipe. "Turbulence cascade in an inhomogeneous turbulent flow." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/63233.
Full textAhmed, Umair. "Flame turbulence interaction in premixed turbulent combustion." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/flame-turbulence-interaction-in-premixed-turbulent-combustion(f23c7263-df3d-41fa-90ed-41735fcaa34a).html.
Full textTanaka, Dan. "Chemical turbulence equivalent to Nikolaevskii turbulence." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/145070.
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京都大学大学院理学研究科物理学・宇宙物理学専攻
(主査)助教授 篠本 滋, 教授 小貫 明, 助教授 早川 尚男
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Sanderson, V. E. "Turbulence modelling of turbulent buoyant jets and compartment fires." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1826/137.
Full textKhorsandi, Babak. "Effect of background turbulence on an axisymmetric turbulent jet." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104661.
Full textL'effet de la turbulence ambiante sur l'évolution d'un jet turbulent est étudié dans le cadre de cette recherche expérimentale. L'objectif primaire de ce travail est l'étude de l'effet de l'intensité de la turbulence ambiante sur l'évolution d'un jet turbulent, à trois nombres de Reynolds différents. L'objectif secondaire est l'amélioration des mesures de vélocimétrie acoustique Doppler qui se sont avérées inexactes au cours de ce travail. Un dispositif à anémométrie à fil chaud volant a aussi été développé pour effectuer des mesures dans le cadre de cette étude. A cette fin, un mécanisme de translation a été conçu pour déplacer la sonde à vitesse constante. Un système d'acquisition de données et des programmes LabVIEW ont été développés pour enregistrer les données et contrôler le mécanisme. De premières expériences (dans un jet turbulent axisymétrique en milieu tranquille) ont prouvé le bien-fondé i) des mesures de vitesses moyenne et moyenne quadratique par anémométrie à fil chaud volant, et ii) des mesures de vitesse moyenne (dans tous le sens) et de vitesse moyenne quadratique (dans le sens z) par vélocimétrie acoustique Doppler. Les mesures par vélocimétrie acoustique Doppler dans les sens x et y étaient surestimées. L'amélioration des mesures de vitesse moyenne quadratique par vélocimétrie acoustique Doppler a été tentée par moyen de techniques de réduction de bruit existantes. Néanmoins, les vitesses moyennes quadratiques restaient surestimées. Une nouvelle technique de réduction de bruit (qui avait pour résultat des vitesses moyennes quadratiques précises) a été proposée dans le cadre de cette étude. En outre, des expériences ayant pour but de quantifier le rapport entre le bruit Doppler et la vitesse de l'écoulement ont été entreprises (pour pouvoir soustraire le bruit Doppler des mesures de vitesses moyennes quadratiques). Cependant, celles-ci n'ont trouvé aucun rapport entre ces deux quantités. Par la suite, l'effet de l'intensité de la turbulence ambiante sur l'évolution d'un jet turbulent axisymétrique, à trois nombres de Reynolds différents, a été étudié. La turbulence ambiante a été produite par moyen d'une maille de jets aléatoires. La turbulence ambiante s'est avérée, par moyen de mesures d'anémométrie à fil chaud volant et de vélocimétrie acoustique Doppler, homogène est isotrope. L'évolution d'un jet turbulent (à trois nombres de Reynolds) émis en milieux turbulents (de deux intensités différentes) a ensuite été étudiée. Les mesures ont démontré que la turbulence ambiante i) réduisait la vitesse axiale moyenne du jet (en augmentant le taux de décroissance), et ii) augmentait la vitesse radiale moyenne du jet (surtout prés du bord du jet). Pour les jets à nombre de Reynolds bas, la structure du jet a été détruite dans le champ proche du jet. Les vitesses moyennes quadratiques du jet émis en milieu turbulent étaient plus grandes, indiquant une croissance du niveau de turbulence dans le jet. En outre, la demi-largeur du jet augmentait en milieu turbulent. Par contre, en environnement turbulent, le débit massique du jet émis a diminué, ce qui implique que le taux d'entraînement du jet est aussi réduit. L'effet de la turbulence ambiante sur les mécanismes de l'entraînement (par engloutissement à grande échelle ou par grignotage) est examiné. Il est conclu que, en environnement turbulent, l'engloutissement est le mécanisme d'entraînement principal.
Irvine, Mark Rankin. "Turbulence and turbulent transport above and within coniferous forests." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240324.
Full textMergheni, Mohamed Ali. "Interactions particules - turbulence dans un jet axisymétrique diphasique turbulent." Rouen, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008ROUES067.
Full textDonzis, Diego Aaron. "Scaling of turbulence and turbulent mixing using Terascale numerical simulations." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/19794.
Full textKeshava, Iyer Kartik P. "Studies of turbulence structure and turbulent mixing using petascale computing." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52260.
Full textIslam, Asiful. "An Implicit Hybrid Turbulence Model for Wall-Bounded Turbulent Aerodynamics." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21285.
Full textSainte-Rose, Bruno. "Simulations numériques d'écoulements réactifs massivement décollés par une approche hybride RANS/LES." Phd thesis, Ecole Centrale Paris, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00635538.
Full textMelotte, David John. "Superfluid turbulence." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287825.
Full textDupont, Richard. "Structure du courant de dérive induit par le vent dans la couche superficielle de l'eau dans sa phase initiale de génération et de développement." Aix-Marseille 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994AIX22087.
Full textBenhalilou, Moktar. "Etude expérimentale et numérique de l'influence de rainures à la paroi sur une couche limite turbulente." Aix-Marseille 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992AIX22054.
Full textItano, Tomoaki. "Coherent structure and turbulence production mechanism in wall turbulence." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/150811.
Full textLaenen, François. "Modulation de mélange, transport et turbulence dans des suspensions solides : étude et modélisation." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AZUR4010/document.
Full textThe transport of particles by turbulent flows is ubiquitous in nature and industry. It occurs in planet formation, plankton dynamics and combustion in engines. For the dispersion of atmospheric pollutants, traditional predictive models based on eddy diffusivity cannot accurately reproduce high concentration fluctuations, which are of primal importance for ecological and health issues. The first part of this thesis relates to the dispersion by turbulence of tracers continuously emitted from a point source. Mass fluctuations are characterized as a function of the distance from the source and of the observation scale. The combination of various physical mixing processes limits the use of fractal geometric tools. An alternative approach is proposed, allowing to interpret mass fluctuations in terms of the various regimes of pair separation in turbulent flows. The second part concerns particles with a finite and possibly large inertia, whose dispersion in velocity requires developing efficient modelling techniques. A novel numerical method is proposed to express inertial particles distribution in the position-velocity phase space. Its convergence is validated by comparison to Lagrangian measurements. This method is then used to describe the modulation of two-dimensional turbulence by large-Stokes-number heavy particles. At high inertia, the effect is found to be analogous to an effective large-scale friction. At small Stokes numbers, kinetic energy spectrum and nonlinear transfers are shown to be modified in a non-trivial way which relates to the development of instabilities at vortices boundaries
Rodier, Quentin. "Paramétrisation de la turbulence atmosphérique dans la couche limite stable." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOU30343/document.
Full textThe modeling of the stable atmospheric boundary layer is one of the current challenge faced by weather and climate models. The stable boundary layer is a key for the prediction of fog, surface frost, temperature inversion, low-level jet and pollution peaks. Furthermore, polar regions, where stable boundary layer predominates, are one of the region with the largest temperature rise : the stable boundary layer modeling is crucial for the reduction of the spread of climate predictions. Since more than 15 years, the GABLS models intercomparison exercices have shown that turbulent mixing in the stable boundary layer is overestimated by numerical weather prediction models. Numerous models artificially strengthen the activity of their turbulence scheme to avoid a laminarization of the flow at a critical value of the gradient Richardson number. The existence of this threshold is only a theoretical and a numerical issues. Numerous observations and high-resolution numerical simulations do not support this concept and show two different regimes : the weakly stable boundary layer that is continuously and strongly turbulent; and the very stable boundary layer globally intermittent with a highly anisotropic and very weak turbulence. This thesis aims at improving the turbulence scheme within the atmospheric research model Méso-NH developped by Météo-France and the Laboratoire d'Aérologie, and the operational weather forecast model AROME. We use a traditional methodology based on the comparison of high-resolution simulations that dynamically resolve the most energetic turbulent eddies (Large-Eddy Simulations) to single-column simulations. Several LES covering the weakly and the very stable boundary layer were performed with Méso-NH. The limits of applicability of LES in stratified conditions are documented. The first part of the study deals with the overmixing in the weakly stable boundary layer. We propose a new diagnostic formulation for the mixing length which is a key parameter for turbulence schemes based on a prognostic equation for the turbulent kinetic energy. The new formulation adds a local vertical wind shear term to a non-local buoyancy-based mixing length currently used in Méso-NH and in the French operational model AROME. The new scheme is evaluated first in single-column simulations with Méso-NH and compared to LES, and then in the AROME model with respect to observations collected from the operational network of Météo-France. The second part presents a theoretical and numerical evaluation of a turbulence scheme based on two prognostic equations for the turbulent kinetic and potentiel energies. In stratified conditions, the heat flux contributes to the production of turbulent potential energy. The laminarization of the flow is then limited by a reduction of the destruction of the turbulent kinetic energy by a better representation of the anisotropy and a counter-gradient term in the heat flux. On the simulated cases, this new formulation behaves similarly than the scheme with one equation for the turbulent kinetic energy because the self-preservation mechanism is not dominant compared to the dissipation term. Further research should improve the turbulent kinetic energy dissipation closure in the very stable regime
Rkein, Hussein. "Direct numerical simulation of wall turbulence subjected to an adverse pressure gradient." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lille (2018-2021), 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021LILUN031.
Full textThe main objective of this work is to analyze the effects of a moderate adverse pressure gradient on the dynamics of turbulent boundary layer flows. For that purpose, a direct numerical simulation (DNS) of the turbulent boundary layer (TBL) subjected to a moderate adverse pressure gradient (APG) out of equilibrium has been performed using the open-source code Incompact3d up to a Reynolds number of 8000 based on momentum thickness. A large database resolved in time and space was collected and used to analyze the turbulence statistics. Special attention has been paid to the existence and evolution of the outer peak of Reynolds stresses observed in APG wall-bounded flows. Different velocity scalings have been investigated and tested against the numerical results. The velocity scale based on the shear stress is shown to scale all the Reynolds stresses profiles for different Reynolds numbers, indicating that all Reynolds stresses are associated with a single dynamics of turbulent structures.The large-scale coherent structures of the streamwise velocity fluctuations have been investigated using two-point spatial correlation. A comparison with a zero pressure gradient case at an equivalent Reynolds number allows us to further investigate the effect of the pressure gradient on the size and inclination of attached coherent structures. A deeper investigation of the coherent structures was also performed, where each structure was detected separately based on a thresholding method to distinguish between the effects of large and small scales and to better understand the mechanisms controlling the dynamics of these structures. The contribution of large-scale motions (LSM) on the Reynolds stresses comparing with ZPG case was also analyzed
Keating, Shane Richard. "Wavy magnetohydrodynamic turbulence." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3304429.
Full textTitle from first page of PDF file (viewed June 18, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-118).
Halpin, T. P. J. "Strong Langmuir turbulence." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370262.
Full textMazzi, Biagio. "Fractal-induced turbulence." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615630.
Full textNenja, A. "Turbulence closure models." Thesis, Вид-во СумДУ, 2005. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/19821.
Full textHarper, Katie L. "Rossby wave turbulence." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/77695/.
Full textNorman, Joseph Barnett. "Seed-turbulence-iteration." Diss., University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6820.
Full textPushkarev, Andrey. "Self-organization of isotopic and drift-ware turbulence." Thesis, Ecully, Ecole centrale de Lyon, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013ECDL0057/document.
Full textIn order to give a general statistical description of turbulence, one tries to identify universal statistical features, common to a wider class of turbulent flows. In 1988, Kraichnan and Panda discovered one such possibly universal feature, namely, the fact that Navier-Stokes turbulence tends to reduce the strength of the nonlinearity in its governing equations. In the flrst part of the manuscript we consider the strength of the nonlinear term and, more precisely, of its fluctuations in isotropic turbulence. In order to measure this strength, we compare to the case of a flow fleld with the same energy distribution where the modes are statistically independent, as is the case in Gaussian noise. It is shown that the turbulent flow self-organizes towards a state in which the nonlinearity is reduced, and it is discussed what the implications of this reduction are. Also, in two dimensions it is illustrated how this self-organization manifests itself through the appearance of well-deflned vortical flow structures. In the second part of the manuscript, we investigate the dynamics of the Hasegawa- Wakatani model, a model relevant in the study of magnetically conflned fusion plasmas. The two-dimensional version of this model is considered, which includes some key features of the turbulent dynamics of a tokamak-edge. We consider the limit of the model in which the nonlinearity is reduced with respect to the linear forces. For this weakly nonlinear, wave dominated regime, analytical predictions suggest the presence of a feedback loop in which energy is transferred to highly anisotropic zonal flows by nonlocal interactions. We confirm these predictions and we demonstrate a strong suppression of the turbulent radial particle flux. In wall bounded geometry, the same mechanism is observed and here also the flux is eflciently reduced by the turbulence-zonal flow interaction
MacAulay, Phillip N. "An investigation of structure in a turbulent boundary layer developing on a smooth wall." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30002.
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Frohnapfel, Bettina M. [Verfasser]. "Flow Control of Near-Wall Turbulence : Strömungskontrolle wandnaher Turbulenz / Bettina M Frohnapfel." Aachen : Shaker, 2007. http://d-nb.info/1166511243/34.
Full textOnokpe, Oghenekevwe Owin. "Numerical investigation of turbulent hydrogen/air diffusion flames and turbulence radiation interactions." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2448.
Full textDallas, Vassilios. "Multiscale structure of turbulent channel flow and polymer, dynamics in viscoelastic turbulence." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/5855.
Full textPujol, Company M. Dolors. "Waves and turbulence on submerged and emergent aquatic vegetation." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/111336.
Full textLes zones costeres estan governades per forces físiques originades per la marea, l’onatge, i la convecció nocturna, entre d’altres, i caracteritzades per la presència de plantes aquàtiques. Aquesta tesi té per objectiu estudiar la hidrodinàmica d’un fluid dominat per: turbulència quasi-isotròpica, onades progressives i onades trencants en diferents models de vegetació. En un fluid dominat per turbulència isotròpica, la reducció de la turbulència augmenta al reduir la distància entre plantes. En un fluid dominat per onades progressives, la disminució de la turbulència està associada a la reducció de la velocitat d’onada al cim de la vegetació. Aquesta reducció s’observa en plantes submergides flexibles degut a que el moviment de les plantes absorbeix l’energia. La vegetació emergent també redueix la turbulència. Per condicions específiques d’onades progressives i densitat de plantes i sota un fluid dominat per onades trencants, la turbulència incrementa si el número de Reynolds és més gran que 300
Gagne, Yves. "Etude expérimentale de l'intermittence et des singularités dans le plan complexe en turbulence développée." Grenoble 1, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987GRE10159.
Full textVosskuhle, Michel. "Particle collisions in turbulent flows." Phd thesis, Ecole normale supérieure de lyon - ENS LYON, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00946618.
Full textMicard, Diane. "Dissipation et mélange en turbulence stratifiée : une approche expérimentale." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSEC041/document.
Full textOur climate partly depends on energy exchange between warm and cold water masses in the ocean's interior. In order to understand and forecast the climate variations, numerical models of the ocean must estimate the amount of energy converted into irreversible mixing in turbulent stably stratified flows. It seems that this quantity depends on the flow parameters. This assertion challenges the famous Osborn model for turbulent diffusivity kz which uses a fixed mixing efficiency of ŋ=0.17. This motivated us to measure separately kz and ŋ in order to obtain a better understanding of their inter-dependencies. The present work is an experimental study based on set-ups which enable to quantify the mixing in different types of flow. Three of those experiments are held in our lab (LMFA) and consist respectively in a lock-exchange experiment where mixing is generated by the shear at the interface of two opposite gravity currents, a stratified towed grid experiment, and a hydraulic channel experiment where the stratification is injected directly by the grid. This study has been complemented with two international collaborations. The first one, on the Coriolis platform (LEGI) consisted in a stratified towed grid experiment in a rotating tank allowing to broaden our parameter spectrum. The second one is a series of in situ measurements led in collaboration with ISMER in the Saguenay fjord (Canada) aiming at measuring density transects over time in order to quantify the turbulent mixing that participates in the renewal of the fjord's deep water. In all of those configurations, dependencies of mixing efficiency and turbulent diffusivity along with the Froude and the Reynolds numbers are extracted from the time evolution of density profiles. In our results, we were able to quantify the decay of the mixing efficiency with the increase of the Froude number. We also highlighted the sensitivity of turbulent diffusivity on the buoyancy Reynolds number. We used three different experimental setups to show that beyond the so called universal turbulence laws, the flow geometry has a huge impact on the mixing efficiency values. This is especially true in the lock-exchange configuration where the asymptotic value of ŋ=0.25, predicted by statistical physics, can only be reached in a set-up which allows 3D flows. Such investigations are still scarce in the literature. Finally, all the data analysis methods developed for the lab experiments were of great help for the analysis of in situ data and thereby enabled us to consider a real-life environnemental flow
Gnanga, Honoré. "Analyse numérique d'écoulements turbulents anisotropes à l'aide de modèles non-linéaires de turbulence." Thesis, Lille 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008LIL10057/document.
Full textThe aim of this work is to predict numerically the three - dimensional turbulent flows of a Newtonian and incompressible fluid using nonlinear stress - strain models. The Explicit Algebraic Stress Models (EASM), which can take into account the anisotropy of turbulence with less CPU time and computer memory than RSM or approach DNS and LES, are adopted as a turbulence model. Among these models, we choosed Shih et al. (1995) and Craft et a1.(1996) models. These models are studied using a priori and a posteriori investigations. The study is carried out in square duct. This configuration presents a secondary flow and a significant anisotropy between the Reynolds stress components. To predict the significant viscous effects due to the wall and the corner, the damping functions are implemented. The maps of the second and third invariants in the plan of Lumley exhibited show the various states of turbulence and a good anisotropy level obtained. The mean flow field and the turbulent statistics are compared with existing numerical and experimental data for square and rectangular duct flow. The model performance is shown to be satisfactory. ln particular, the mean secondary velocity vectors and stream wise vorticity are well predicted
Campagne, Antoine. "Cascades d’énergie et turbulence d’ondes dans une expérience de turbulence en rotation." Thesis, Paris 11, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA112116/document.
Full textWe present an experimental study of the effect of global rotation on statistically stationary turbulent flows. In a first experiment, the flow is generated with counter-rotating vortex generators acting in a periodic motion in a rotating tank filled with water. Resolved in time measurements of the three component of the velocity are performed, in both horizontal and vertical planes, thanks to a stereoscopic particle image velocimetry system embarked in the rotating frame. The flow has, in accordance with the bibliography, a strong anisotropy and shows the emergence of an energetic 2D flow. For the first time experimentally, we describe the global scale by scale energy budget of a rotating turbulence through the measure of the terms of the inhomogeneous generalization of Kármán-Howarth-Monin equation. We thus reveal a double energy cascade: direct at small scale and inverse at large scale, the scale of cascade reversal decreasing with the rotation rate. Then, we evaluate the injected power into the system which is intrinsically linked to the inhomogeneities of the flow. The energy input comes from auto-advection of turbulent structures through the boundaries of the area considered. It is broadband in scales and spreads as ration increases. We then focus on relevance of inertial wave turbulence models. We first perform a spatiotemporal analysis which reveals the presence of linear inertial waves at large frequencies and scales. However, we show that the spatiotemporal signature of small frequencies and scales are scrambled by the linear process of stochastic sweeping by the 2D energetic mode. In a second experiment, the flow is created thanks to a four-rectangular-blade impeller in a closed rotating tank. We estimate the energy dissipation rate through the measure of the injected power by the motor that drives the impeller. We then bring, for the first time, a direct evidence of the scaling law predicted by inertial wave turbulence models which is fallen by a factor Rossby compared to the scaling law of 3D homogeneous isotropic turbulence
Desjonqueres, Philippe. "Modélisation lagrangienne du comportement de particules discrètes en écoulement turbulent." Rouen, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987ROUES004.
Full textRaus, David. "Transport sédimentaire sur rugosités immobiles : de l'hydrodynamique locale à la morphodynamique." Phd thesis, Toulouse, INPT, 2018. http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/23587/1/Raus_David.pdf.
Full textÖzyılmaz, Nagihan. "Lattice Boltzmann computations of grid-generated turbulence = Lattice-Boltzmann-Berechnungen von gittergenerierter Turbulenz." kostenfrei, 2009. http://d-nb.info/999753282/34.
Full textGerbi, Gregory Peter. "Observations of turbulent fluxes and turbulence dynamics in the ocean surface boundary layer." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45778.
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This study presents observations of turbulence dynamics made during the low winds portion of the Coupled Boundary Layers and Air-Sea Transfer experiment (CBLAST-Low). Observations were made of turbulent fluxes, turbulent kinetic energy, and the length scales of flux-carrying and energy-containing eddies in the ocean surface boundary layer. A new technique was developed to separate wave and turbulent motions spectrally, using ideas for turbulence spectra that were developed in the study of the bottom boundary layer of the atmosphere. The observations of turbulent fluxes allowed the closing of heat and momentum budgets across the air-sea interface. The observations also show that flux-carrying eddies are similar in size to those expected in rigid-boundary turbulence, but that energy-containing eddies are smaller than those in rigid-boundary turbulence. This suggests that the relationship between turbulent kinetic energy, depth, and turbulent diffusivity are different in the ocean surface boundary layer than in rigid-boundary turbulence. The observations confirm previous speculation that surface wave breaking provides a surface source of turbulent kinetic energy that is transported to depth where it dissipates. A model that includes the effects of shear production, wave breaking and dissipation is able to reproduce the enhancement of turbulent kinetic energy near the wavy ocean surface. However, because of the different length scale relations in the ocean surface boundary layer, the empirical constants in the energy model are different from the values that are used to model rigid-boundary turbulence. The ocean surface boundary layer is observed to have small but finite temperature gradients that are related to the boundary fluxes of heat and momentum, as assumed by closure models. However, the turbulent diffusivity of heat in the surface boundary layer is larger than predicted by rigid-boundary closure models. Including the combined effects of wave breaking, stress, and buoyancy forcing allows a closure model to predict the turbulent diffusivity for heat in the ocean surface boundary layer.
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Kishi, Tatsuro. "Scaling laws for turbulent relative dispersion in two-dimensional energy inverse-cascade turbulence." Doctoral thesis, Kyoto University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/263445.
Full textWidlund, Ola. "Modeling of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3065.
Full textNewton, Andrew P. L. "Transport in sheared turbulence." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531179.
Full textSalort, Julien. "Turbulence quantique versus classique." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00648090.
Full textWatt, Alex G. "Study of isotropic turbulence." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11524.
Full textRosenbaum, Traci J. "The Music of Turbulence." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1891.
Full textBec, Jérémie. "Particules, singularités et turbulence." Paris 6, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA066027.
Full textDitlevsen, Peter D. "Turbulence and climate dynamics /." Copenhagen, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41081541g.
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