Summer Study Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Order and Disorder in Turbulent Shear Flow.

Abstract

CONTENTS: Order and disorder in turbulent shear flow: What is Coherent Structure; Statistical Measures of Turbulence; Coherent Structures in the Laboratory and in nature; Equations of Motion; Shear Flow Instability; Turbulence and Flow Instability; Euler Description of Fluctuating Field; Coherent Structure Modeling; Modeling; Numerical Simulation, Final Questions.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA177571

Entities

People

  • Melvin E. Stern

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Buildings And Structures
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Instability
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Shear Flow
  • Turbulence

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)