Modeling atmospheric and oceanic flows : insights from laboratory experiments and numerical simulations

Modeling atmospheric and oceanic flows : insights from laboratory experiments and numerical simulations / Thomas Von Larcher, Paul D. Williams, editors.

Provides a broad overview of recent progress in using laboratory experiments and numerical simulations to model atmospheric and oceanic fluid motions. This volume not only surveys novel research topics in laboratory experimentation, but also highlights recent developments in the corresponding comput...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, District of Columbia ; Hoboken, NJ : American Geophysical Union : Wiley, 2015.
Series:Geophysical monograph ; 205.
Subjects:
Atmospheric physics.
Oceanography.
oceanography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
Atmospheric physics
Oceanography
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Simulations of natural flows in the laboratory and on a computer
  • Part 1. Baroclinic-driven flows
  • General circulation of planetary atmospheres: Insights from rotating annulus and related experiments
  • Primary flow transitions in the Baroclinic Annulus: Prandtl number effects
  • Amplitude vacillation in Baroclinic flows
  • Part 2. Balanced and unbalanced flows
  • Rotation effects on wall-bounded flows: Some laboratory experiments
  • Altimetry in a GFD laboratory and flows on the polar ss-plane
  • Instabilities of shallow-water flows with vertical shear in the rotating annulus
  • Laboratory experiments on flows over bottom topography
  • Direct numerical simulations of laboratory-scale stratified turbulence
  • Part 3. Atmospheric flows
  • Numerical simulation (DNS, LES) of geophysical laboratory experiments: Quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) analogue and simulations toward Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) analogue
  • Internal waves in laboratory experiments
  • Frontal instabilities at density-shear interfaces in rotating two-layer stratified fluids
  • Part 4. Oceanic flows
  • Large-amplitude coastal shelf waves
  • Laboratory experiments with abrupt thermohaline transitions and oscillations
  • Oceanic island wake flows in the laboratory
  • Part 5. Advances in methodology
  • Lagrangian methods in experimental fluid mechanics
  • A high-resolution method for direct numerical simulation of instabilities and transitions in a Baroclinic cavity
  • Orthogonal decomposition methods to analyze PIV, LDV, and thermography data of thermally driven rotating annulus laboratory experiments.

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