A persistent spatial organization of eddies is identified in the lowest portion stably-stratified planetary boundary layer. The analysis uses flow realizations from published large-eddy simulations (Sullivan et al., J Atmos Sci 73(4):1815-1840, 2016) ranging stability neutral to nearly z-less stratification. coherent turbulent structure well approximated as a series uniform momentum zones (UMZs...

In the present paper, thermal transport and entropy production mechanisms in a turbulent round jet of compressed nitrogen at supercritical thermodynamic conditions are investigated using a direct numerical simulation. First, thermal transport and its contribution to the mixture formation along with the anisotropy of heat fluxes and temperature scales are examined. Secondly, the entropy producti...

Attempts to monitor ocean eddy heat transport are strongly limited by the sparseness of available observations and the fact that heat transport is a quadratic, sign-indefinite quantity that is particularly sensitive to unresolved scales. In this article, a suite of stochastic filtering strategies for estimating eddy heat transport are tested in idealized two-layer simulations of mesoscale ocean...

Communicated by D.B. Spalding) A model equation for the scalar dissipation rate, based on the Two Scale Direct Interaction Approximation (TSDIA) of Yoshizawa [1J was solved and applied to a turbulent round jet in conjunction with turbulence modelling based on the eddy viscosity and diffusivity. The model coefficients were adjusted by using a similarity analysis for the round jet. This led to an...

In many global ocean climate models, mesoscale eddies are parameterized as along isopycnal diffusion and eddyinduced advection (or equivalently skew-diffusion). The eddy-induced advection flattens isopycnals and acts as a sink of available potential energy, whereas the isopycnal diffusion mixes tracers along neutral directions. While much effort has gone into estimating diffusivities associated...