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Downstream and soaring interfaces and vortices in 2-D stratified wakes and their impact on transport of contaminants
Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics, Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the RAS, 101/1, prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119526, Russia
Abstract. The flow of continuously stratified fluids past obstacles was studied analytically, numerically, and experimentally. The obstacles discussed here include a flat strip, aligned with the flow, inclined or transverse to the flow and a horizontal cylinder. In the flow pattern, transient and attached (lee) internal waves, downstream wakes with submerged interfaces and vortices, soaring singular interfaces, soaring vortices and vortex systems are distinguished. New components of laminar flow past a horizontally towed strip are presented. Fine transverse streaky structures on the strip in the downstream wake were visualized. Soaring isolated interfaces, which are internal boundary layers forming inside the downstream attached wave field past bluff bodies were observed. With increasing of the body velocity a vortex pair was formed directly at the leading edge of this interface.
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Citation: Chashechkin, Y. D., Mitkin, V. V., and Bardakov, R. N.: Downstream and soaring interfaces and vortices in 2-D stratified wakes and their impact on transport of contaminants, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 13, 401-408, doi:10.5194/npg-13-401-2006, 2006. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
