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Mixing

Turbulent mixing of momentum, buoyancy, scalars, or density across layers and interfaces.

Publications (50)

Projects (3)

Demos (3)

  • Gravity currents — the lock-release experiment
    Pour something dense into something lighter and it doesn't sit still — it races along the bottom in a head-and-tail structure with a remarkably steady speed. Compare the simulated current with a two-layer shallow-water prediction.
  • Rayleigh–Bénard convection — patterns from heat
    Heat the bottom of a fluid layer, cool the top, and watch patterns emerge. Adjust the Rayleigh number to walk from conduction through cells to soft turbulence.
  • Patterns from chaos — symmetric fractals
    A simple complex map iterated millions of times produces intricate, symmetry-respecting patterns — a small window onto the kind of scale-invariant structure that pervades turbulent flows.