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Turbulence in stably stratified flows: energy spectra, intermittent bursts and helicity dynamics - Dr. Cecilia Rorai, Queen Mary University
2016-10-14 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | JDB Seminar Room, CUED
Understanding turbulence in stably stratified flows is essential to build accurate weather and climate prediction models. Compared to homogeneous isotropic turbulence, stratified turbulence unveils a richer dynamics: energy spectra slopes vary with the stratification strength, vertical velocity and temperature fields possess a bursty character and helicity matters. These are the issues we have focused on and studied numerically. I will also discuss the challenges posed by our numerical approach.
