Stirring and mixing : 1999 Program of Summer Study in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
2000
Balmforth, Neil J. | Young, William R. | Fields, Janet | Thiffeault, Jean-Luc | Pasquero, Claudia
Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. OCE-9810647 andthe Office of Naval Research under Grant No. NOO0l4-97-1-0934.
Show more [+] Less [-]The central theme of the 1999 GFD Program was the stirring, transport, reaction and mixing of passive and active tracers inturbulent, stratified, rotating fluids. The problem of mixing in fluids has applications in areas ranging from oceanography toengineering and astrophysics. In geophysical settings, mixing spans and unites a broad range of scales -- from micrometers tomegameters. The mixing of passive tracers is of fundamental importance in environmental and industrial problems, such aspollution, and in determining the large-scale heat and salt balance of the worlds oceans. The transport of active tracers, on the otherhand, such as vorticity, plays a key role in the turbulence that occurs in most geophysical and astrophysical fluids. William R.Young (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) gave a series of principal lectures, the notes of which as taken by the fellows, appearin this volume. Report of the projects of the student fellows makes up the second half of this volume.
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