Tilting Shear Layers in Coastal Flows

Abstract

The long-term goals of this research are to explore the evolution of flows with strong horizontal shear and horizontal density gradients (see Figure 1). These tilting shear layers are common in strongly time-dependent coastal flows including estuarine inflows and outflows, separating flows around headlands and islands, and merging flows in morphologically complex regions such as tidal inlets, including fringing reef systems such as at Palau.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2015
Accession Number
AD1014380

Entities

People

  • Brian L. White
  • Karl Helfrich

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aspect Ratio
  • Flow
  • Instability
  • Layers
  • Mixing
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Personal Information Managers
  • Regions
  • Remote Sensing
  • Reynolds Number
  • Rotation
  • Stratification
  • Three Dimensional
  • Topography
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Coastal Oceanography