computational fluid dynamics

Welcome to the CFD & Ocean Process Modelling site at the University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

 


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Conference on ocean-atmosphere energy transport

Upcoming conference on ocean-atmosphere energy transport Nov. 5-7, 2009 at California Institute of Technology. Conference website here, more details when available.
 

Waves and instabilities in geophysical and astrophysical flows

Summer school and workshop held on the island of Porquerolles, France May 25-31, 2009. The workshop flyer and my course abstract are attached. PDF versions of all the presentations, hopefully including the really nice posters, will be available at the workshop website soon. In the meantime, a gzipped pdf version of my course is attached below. The corresponding keynote file contains movies. Email me if you'd like a copy (38 MB gzipped).

comparison w/ flow over Knight Inlet sill

comparison w/ flow over Knight Inlet sill

I like this image. I made it as an intro slide for recent talks at Cornell and AGU San Francisco.

Buoyancy driven circulation

Motivated in part by the review article of Hughes and Griffiths (Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics 2008, Horizontal Convection), in part by an email thread throughout the summer and in part by the Paparella and Young "anti-turbulence" theorem (JFM 2002), we consider idealized horizontal convection focusing on energetics and bounds for the energy transfer rates, in particular the rate of irreversible mixing and buoyancy variance destruction.

Bill Young presented a version of this work at the Sandstrom Symposium at Stockholm University and I also presented a version at the Newton Institute. A pdf of my keynote presentation, along with the revised MS is attached below.

>> The full reference is Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 629 (2009), pages  221-230.

 

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