Multi-scale dynamics of Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities. Part 2. Energy dissipation rates, evolutions and statistics
Multi-scale dynamics of Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities. Part 2. Energy dissipation rates, evolutions and statistics
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开尔文-亥姆霍兹不稳定性的多尺度动力学。
DOI:
10.1017/jfm.2021.1086
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Lund, T.S.
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文献类型:
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作者:
Fritts, David C.;Wang, L.;Thorpe, S.A.;Lund, T.S.
Fritts et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. xx, 2022, xx) describe a direct numerical simulation of interacting Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (KHI) billows arising due to initial billow cores that exhibit variable phases along their axes. Such KHI exhibit strong ‘tube and knot’ dynamics identified in early laboratory studies by Thorpe (Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., vol. 34, 1985, pp. 175–199). Thorpe (Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., vol. 128, 2002, pp. 1529–1542) noted that these dynamics may be prevalent in the atmosphere, and they were recently identified in atmospheric observations at high altitudes. Tube and knot dynamics were found by Fritts et al. (J. Fluid. Mech., 2022) to drive stronger and faster turbulence transitions than secondary instabilities of individual KH billows. Results presented here reveal that KHI tube and knot dynamics also yield energy dissipation rates 2–3 times larger to later stages of the flow evolution, compared with those of secondary convective instabilities (CI) and secondary KHI accompanying KH billows without tube and knot influences. Elevated energy dissipation rates occur due to turbulence transitions by tube and knot dynamics arising on much larger scales than secondary CI and KHI where initial KH billows are misaligned. Tube and knot dynamics also excite large-scale Kelvin ‘twist waves’ that cause vortex tube and billow core fragmentation, more energetic cascades of similar interactions to smaller scales and account for the strongest energy dissipation events accompanying such KH billow evolutions.
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影响因子:
4.4
作者:
Fritts, David C.;Wan, Kam;Hecht, James H.
通讯作者:
Hecht, James H.
影响因子:
1.7
作者:
Colm‐cille P. Caulfield;S. Yoshida;W. Peltier
通讯作者:
W. Peltier
DOI:
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发表时间:
1985
期刊:
影响因子:
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作者:
G. Klaassen;W. Peltier
通讯作者:
W. Peltier
影响因子:
8.9
作者:
By R. S. Thorpe
通讯作者:
By R. S. Thorpe
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
A. Mashayek;Colm‐cille P. Caulfield;W. Peltier
通讯作者:
W. Peltier