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Inflow
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TL;DR: In this article, an experimental and numerical study of a turbulent boundary layer with pressure gradients was conducted using the recent "fringe method" with its numerical advantages and good inflow quality.
Abstract: Results are presented of an experimental and numerical study of a turbulent boundary layer with pressure gradients conducted using the recent 'fringe method' with its numerical advantages and good inflow quality. After an inflow transient good agreement is observed; the differences, of up to 13 percent, are discussed. Moderate deviations from the law of the wall are found in the velocity profiles of the simulation. They are fully correlated with the pressure gradient, are in fair quantitative agreement with the experimental results of Nagano et al. (1992), and are roughly the opposite of uncorrected mixing-length-model predictions. Large deviations from the wall scaling are observed for other quantities, notably for the turbulence dissipation rate. The a(1) structure parameter drops mildly in the upper layer with adverse pressure gradient.
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TL;DR: A composite study of 10 years of northwest Pacific rawinsonde data is used to analyze the large-scale structure of tropical cyclones as discussed by the authors, where temperature, height, moisture, wind and vertical motion fields are analyzed for various storm regions.
Abstract: A composite study of 10 years of northwest Pacific rawinsonde data is used to analyze the large-scale structure of tropical cyclones. The temperature, height, moisture, wind and vertical motion fields are analyzed for various storm regions. Mean soundings for all regions from the eye through 12° radius are presented. Rainfall characteristics of the area inside 4° radius are discussed. Hurricane flight data are used to augment the analyses in the inner regions. Many important features are noted. Strong persistent asymmetries in storm structure exist, particularly at large radii. The storm circulation has very broad horizontal extent and appears to conform to a constant scale regardless of inner core intensity. Inflow in the middle troposphere is substantial from 4° outward. A mean subsidence region is observed from about 4–6° radius. Humidities are extremely high in the inner regions, and conditional instability exists everywhere outside the eye. Significant diurnal variations in rainfall and temp...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present results from two long-duration general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of advection-dominated accretion around a non-spinning black hole.
Abstract: We present results from two long-duration general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of advection-dominated accretion around a non-spinning black hole. The first simulation was designed to avoid significant accumulation of magnetic flux around the black hole. This simulation was run for a time of 200 000 GM/c3 and achieved inflow equilibrium out to a radius ∼90 GM/c2. Even at this relatively large radius, the mass outflow rate is found to be only 60 per cent of the net mass inflow rate into the black hole. The second simulation was designed to achieve substantial magnetic flux accumulation around the black hole in a magnetically arrested disc. This simulation was run for a shorter time of 100 000 GM/c3. Nevertheless, because the mean radial velocity was several times larger than in the first simulation, it reached inflow equilibrium out to a radius ∼170 GM/c2. Here, becomes equal to at r ∼ 160 GM/c2. Since the mass outflow rates in the two simulations do not show robust convergence with time, it is likely that the true outflow rates are lower than our estimates. The effect of black hole spin on mass outflow remains to be explored. Neither simulation shows strong evidence for convection, though a complete analysis including the effect of magnetic fields is left for the future.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the dynamics of the eddy shedding by the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico have been investigated using three nonlinear numerical models: two-layer, barotropic and reduced gravity.
Abstract: The dynamics of the eddy shedding by the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico have been investigated using three nonlinear numerical models: two-layer, barotropic and reduced gravity. The barotropic and reduced gravity models demonstrate the individual behavior of the external and internal modes, and provide insight into how they interact in the two-layer model. Because of the economy of the semi-implicit free surface models, it was possible to perform over 100 experiments to investigate the stability properties of the Loop Current. Typically, the models were integrated 3–5 years to statistical equilibrium on a 1600 km×900 km rectangular domain with a resolution of 20 km×18.75 km. Prescribed inflow through the model Yucatan Channel was compensated by outflow through the Florida Straits. A long-standing hypothesis is that the Loop Current sheds eddies in response to quasi-annual variations in the inflow. We find that the Loop Current can penetrate into the Gulf, bend westward, and shed realistic ant...
380 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple new zonal boundary condition has been proposed based upon the addition of dissipative and convective terms to the compressible Navier Stokes equations, which is based upon a simple addition of convective and dissipative terms.
Abstract: A simple new zonal boundary condition has been proposed. It is based upon the addition of dissipative and convective terms to the compressible Navier Stokes equations
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