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The Turbulent Ocean: Structure and résumé
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Vortex pairing in an unstable anticyclonic shear flow: discrete subharmonics of one pendulum day
TL;DR: In this article, the authors observed the downstream evolution of an oceanic zonal horizontal shear flow at a Reynolds number of about 1011, formed as the westward North Equatorial Current passes the island of Hawai'i, revealing finite-amplitude anticyclonic vortices resulting from instability of the shear.
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Dispersion of soluble matter in solvent flowing slowly through a tube
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown analytically that the distribution of concentration produced in this way is centred on a point which moves with the mean speed of flow and is symmetrical about it in spite of the asymmetry of the flow.
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On density effects and large structure in turbulent mixing layers
Garry L. Brown,Anatol Roshko +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Spark shadow pictures and measurements of density fluctuations suggest that turbulent mixing and entrainment is a process of entanglement on the scale of the large structures; some statistical properties of the latter are used to obtain an estimate of entrainedment rates, and large changes of the density ratio across the mixing layer were found to have a relatively small effect on the spreading angle.
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Turbulent Transport of Momentum and Heat
Henk Tennekes,John L. Lumley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the Reynolds equations and estimate of the Reynolds stress in the kinetic theory of gases, and describe the effects of shear flow near a rigid wall.
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The Statistical Description of Turbulence
Henk Tennekes,John L. Lumley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the probability density, Fourier transforms and characteristic functions, joint statistics and statistical independence, Correlation functions and spectra, the central limit theorem, and the relation functions are discussed.
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The Instability of Liquid Surfaces when Accelerated in a Direction Perpendicular to their Planes. I
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that when two superposed fluids of different densities are accelerated in a direction perpendicular to their interface, this surface is stable or unstable according to whether the acceleration is directed from the heavier to the lighter fluid or vice versa.