The Role of Scale in the Development and Evolution of Stratified Shear Turbulence, Entrainment and Mixing-Expansion

Abstract

The objective of this effort is to improve methods to relate fundamental turbulent quantities suchas entrainment and buoyancy flux in stratified-shear turbulence, and to better understandprocesses affecting turbulent structure and entrainment across a wide range of Reynolds number,Re, parameter space. We expect that the bulk Richardson number, RiB, alone cannot adequatelydescribe stratified-shear turbulence, but that energetic and physical scales represented by Re arecritically important. This new proposal is being submitted to provide additional funding for the recentlyfunded ONR project N00014-15-1-2456. The original proposal was approved forfunding at an amount of $155,121, but an award of only $114,003 was made in May 2015due to human error when filing the original budget request.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Aug 12, 2016
Source ID
N000141612441

Entities

People

  • Daniel Macdonald

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research
  • United States Navy
  • University of Massachusetts

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Materials Science.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Research Science/Academic Research

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster