Theoretical Explanation of Spectral Slopes in Stratospheric Turbulence Data and Implications for Vertical Transport

Theoretical Explanation of Spectral Slopes in Stratospheric Turbulence Data and Implications for Vertical Transport
Author: Edmond M. Dewan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 1976
Genre: Atmospheric turbulence
ISBN:

This paper is motivated by the requirement to improve understanding of vertical motion of pollutants in the stratosphere. One method to estimate vertical transport due to the effects of turbulence is by means of the effective diffusivity coefficient. To calculate this parameter, it is often necessary to know the value of epsilon, the rate of turbulent dissipation. This parameter, epsilon, is also important to know in the context of the global numerical stratospheric simulation models now being created for environmental assessment purposes.

Mixing and Dispersion in Stably Stratified Flows

Mixing and Dispersion in Stably Stratified Flows
Author: P. A. Davies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 668
Release: 1999
Genre: Diffusion in hydrology
ISBN: 9780198500155

Stratified flows are important in determining how various atmospheric and environmental processes occur. The book investigates these processes and focuses on the methods by which pollutants are mixed and dispersed in natural and industrial environments.

Report

Report
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
Publisher:
Total Pages: 696
Release: 1968
Genre: Hydraulic engineering
ISBN:

Ten Chapters in Turbulence

Ten Chapters in Turbulence
Author: Peter A. Davidson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2013
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0521769442

Leading experts summarize our current understanding of the fundamental nature of turbulence, covering a wide range of topics.

Turbulence in Fluids

Turbulence in Fluids
Author: Marcel Lesieur
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400935455

Turbulence is a dangerous topic which is often at the origin of serious fights in the scientific meetings devoted to it since it represents extremely different points of view, all of which have in common their complexity, as well as an inability to solve the problem. It is even difficult to agree on what exactly is the problem to be solved. Extremely schematically, two opposing points of view have been advocated during these last ten years: the first one is "statistical", and tries to model the evolution of averaged quantities of the flow. This com has followed the glorious trail of Taylor and Kolmogorov, munity, which believes in the phenomenology of cascades, and strongly disputes the possibility of any coherence or order associated to turbulence. On the other bank of the river stands the "coherence among chaos" community, which considers turbulence from a purely deterministic po int of view, by studying either the behaviour of dynamical systems, or the stability of flows in various situations. To this community are also associated the experimentalists who seek to identify coherent structures in shear flows.