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Does the minimum connection time of ocean surface currents depend on the patch scale?
The Nature paper "The timescales of global surface-ocean connectivity" attempts to model "minimum connectivity times (Min-T), or distances based on the fastest times that particles can ...
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Energy density at a given scale in terms of the Energy Spectrum
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Let us have a turbulent fluid with a random velocity field $\mathbf{u}(\mathbf{x})$.
The volume averaged kinetic energy density $\mathscr{E}_K$ can be expressed as
$$\mathscr{E}_K=\frac{1}{...
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About the formula of the Taylor microscale
I am running simulations of a non-isotropic turbulent flow and I need to compute the Taylor microscale. The formula one can find in the book Turbulent flows (Stephen B. Pope) is :
$\lambda = \sqrt{10} ...
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How does the eddy velocity scale with its time scale?
According to Kolmogorov's energy casacade model, if we have a flow with inertial velocity scale $\mathcal{V}$, inertial length scale $\mathcal{L}$ then we can calculate the eddy velocity of an eddy ...
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What does the Reynolds Number of a flow represent physically?
What does the Reynolds Number of a flow represent physically?
I am having trouble understanding the meaning and the utility of the Reynolds number for a certain flow, could someone please tell me how ...
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Why are continuum fluid mechanics accurate when constituents are discrete objects of finite size?
Suppose we view fluids classically, i.e., as a collection of molecules (with some finite size) interacting via e&m and gravitational forces. Presumably we model fluids as continuous objects that ...
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