Coastal Mixing

Abstract

I seek to understand the mechanisms of turbulence and mixing in shallow water sufficiently well to be able to specify useful parameterizations for coastal circulation models. believe that this goal can best be achieved through a combination of comprehensive measurement of the turbulent fluctuations, the larger scale flows which drive them and modelling. These turbulent flows are often complex and rapidly changing and can be only properly measured using a combination of methods which measure a variety of spatial and temporal scales. My medium-term scientific objective is to make and analyze such measurements in cooperation with other investigators.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA627534

Entities

People

  • Eric A. D'Asaro

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Frequency
  • Internal Waves
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Reynolds Number
  • Shallow Water
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers