On the dissipation rate of temperature fluctuations in stably stratified flows

Journal Article (2020)
Author(s)

Sukanta Basu (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)

Adam W. DeMarco (United States Air Force)

Ping He (University of Michigan)

Research Group
Atmospheric Remote Sensing
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-020-09761-7 Final published version
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Publication Year
2020
Language
English
Research Group
Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Journal title
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Issue number
1
Volume number
21
Pages (from-to)
63-82
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Abstract

In this study, we explore several integral and outer length scales of turbulence which can be formulated by using the dissipation of temperature fluctuations (χ) and other relevant variables. Our analyses directly lead to simple yet non-trivial parameterizations for both spatially-averaged χ¯ and the structure parameter of temperature (CT2). For our purposes, we make use of high-fidelity data from direct numerical simulations of stratified channel flows.