Presidential Young Investigator Award: Turbulent Thermal Convection in Rotating and Stratefied Fluids

混合剪切流的研究将主要集中在识别不同Richardson数区域的混合机制以及内波辐射对混合过程的能量学的影响。湍流对流层包围的扩散界面混合的研究将是理论和实验的结合，并将重点放在决定平衡界面层厚度和低稳定度浮力传递的机理上。对局部混合区的形成及其横向扩展的研究将有助于揭示湍流斑块垂直尺寸的合适标度参数，并将有助于理解其重力塌陷过程，这是分层湍流流体中微结构形成的原因。

The major emphasis of the research on mixing shear flows will be on the identification of mixing mechanisms for different Richardson-number regimes and the effect of internal-wave radiation on the energetics of the mixing process. The studies on mixing across diffusive interfaces surrounded by turbulent convecting layers will be a combination of theory and experiment, and will focus on the mechanisms responsible for determining the equilibrium interfacial-layer thickness and the buoyancy transfer at low stabilities. It is expected that the research on the formation of local mixed regions and their lateral spreading will shed light on the appropriate scaling parameters for the vertical size of turbulent patches and will provide understanding of their gravitational collapse process that is responsible for the formation of microstructure in stratified turbulent fluids.