Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows

Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows

Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations

Williams, Paul D.; von Larcher, Thomas

John Wiley & Sons Inc

01/2015

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9781118855935

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Contributors vii Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Simulations of Natural Flows in the Laboratory and on a Computer 1
Paul F Linden

Section I: Baroclinic-Driven Flows

1 General Circulation of Planetary Atmospheres: Insights from Rotating Annulus and Related Experiments
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Peter L Read, Edgar P Perez, Irene M Moroz, and Roland M B Young

2 Primary Flow Transitions in the Baroclinic Annulus: Prandtl Number Effects 45
Gregory M Lewis, Nicolas Perinet, and Lennaert van Veen

3 Amplitude Vacillation in Baroclinic Flows 61
Wolf-Gerrit Frueh

Section II: Balanced and Unbalanced Flows

4 Rotation Effects on Wall-Bounded Flows: Some Laboratory Experiments 85
P Henrik Alfredsson and Rebecca J Lingwood

5 Altimetry in a GFD Laboratory and Flows on the Polar ?-Plane 101
Yakov D Afanasyev

6 Instabilities of Shallow-Water Flows with Vertical Shear in the Rotating Annulus 119
Jonathan Gula and Vladimir Zeitlin

7 Laboratory Experiments on Flows Over Bottom Topography 139
Luis Zavala Sanson and Gert-Jan van Heijst

8 Direct Numerical Simulations of Laboratory-Scale Stratified Turbulence 159
Michael LWaite

Section III: Atmospheric Flows

9 Numerical Simulation (DNS, LES) of Geophysical Laboratory Experiments: Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) Analogue and Simulations Toward Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Analogue 179
Nils PWedi

10 Internal Waves in Laboratory Experiments 193
Bruce Sutherland, Thierry Dauxois, and Thomas Peacock

11 Frontal Instabilities at Density-Shear Interfaces in Rotating Two-Layer Stratified Fluids 213
Helene Scolan, Roberto Verzicco, and Jan-Bert Flor

Section IV: Oceanic Flows

12 Large-Amplitude Coastal Shelf Waves 231
Andrew L Stewart, Paul J Dellar, and Edward R Johnson

13 Laboratory Experiments With Abrupt Thermohaline Transitions and Oscillations 255
John A Whitehead

14 Oceanic Island Wake Flows in the Laboratory 265
Alexandre Stegner

Section V: Advances in Methodology

15 Lagrangian Methods in Experimental Fluid Mechanics 279
Mickael Bourgoin, Jean-Francois Pinton, and Romain Volk

16 A High-Resolution Method for Direct Numerical Simulation of Instabilities and Transitions in a Baroclinic Cavity 297
Anthony Randriamampianina and Emilia Crespo del Arco

17 Orthogonal Decomposition Methods to Analyze PIV, LDV, and Thermography Data of Thermally Driven Rotating Annulus Laboratory Experiments 315
Uwe Harlander, Thomas von Larcher, Grady BWright, Michael Hoff, Kiril Alexandrov, and Christoph Egbers

Index 337
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paul; simulations; xi flows; introduction; contributors; f; laboratory; natural; computer; vii; young; gregory; transitions; prandtl; flow; annulus; baroclinic; number effects; veen; lennaert; section; rotation; vacillation