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arXiv 0901.1259physics.flu-dynphysics.ao-ph
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大Richardson数时的分层剪切流不稳定性

Stratified shear flow instabilities at large Richardson numbers

Alexandros Alexakis

摘要:

在Boussinesq极限下对二维分层剪切流不稳定性进行了数值模拟。密度变化长度尺度被选择为比速度变化长度尺度小四倍,使得Holmboe或Kelvin-Helmholtz不稳定模式取决于全局Richardson数Ri的选择而存在。研究了三种不同的Ri值,Ri =0.2、2、20。三个被测值的流动都是不稳定的,这是由于不同的模式,即:Kelvin-Helmholtz模式(Ri=0.2),第一Holmboe模式(Ri=2),和第二Holmboe模式(Ri=20)最近发现的,这是第一次在非线性阶段进行检查。结果表明,在非线性阶段,第二Holmboe模式的速度扰动幅度较小,但与第一Holmboe模式相当。然而,由于第二Holmboe模式的势能的增加大于第一模式。Kelvin-Helmholtz模式的动能比Holmboe模式大两个数量级,势能比Holmboe模式大大约十倍。本文的结果表明,尽管在大Richardson数下混合被抑制,但它是不可忽略的,并且不能排除强层结环境中的湍流混合过程。

英文摘要:

Numerical simulations of stratified shear flow instabilities are performed in two dimensions in the Boussinesq limit. The density variation length scale is chosen to be four times smaller than the velocity variation length scale so that Holmboe or Kelvin-Helmholtz unstable modes are present depending on the choice of the global Richardson number Ri. Three different values of Ri were examined Ri =0.2, 2, 20. The flows for the three examined values are all unstable due to different modes namely: the Kelvin-Helmholtz mode for Ri=0.2, the first Holmboe mode for Ri=2, and the second Holmboe mode for Ri=20 that has been discovered recently and it is the first time that it is examined in the non-linear stage. It is found that the amplitude of the velocity perturbation of the second Holmboe mode at the non-linear stage is smaller but comparable to first Holmboe mode. The increase of the potential energy however due to the second Holmboe modes is greater than that of the first mode. The Kelvin-Helmholtz mode is larger by two orders of magnitude in kinetic energy than the Holmboe modes and about ten times larger in potential energy than the Holmboe modes. The results in this paper suggest that although mixing is suppressed at large Richardson numbers it is not negligible, and turbulent mixing processes in strongly stratified environments can not be excluded.

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