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An unusual bifurcation scenario in a stably stratified, valley-shaped enclosure heated from below
Patrick J. Stofanak, Cheng-Nian Xiao, Inanc Senocak
We delineate the structure of steady laminar flows within a stably stratified, valley-shaped triangular cavity heated from below through linear stability analysis and Navier-Stokes…
Speaker-wire vortices in stratified anabatic Prandtl slope flows and their secondary instabilities
Cheng-Nian Xiao, Inanc Senocak
Stationary longitudinal vortical rolls emerge in katabatic and anabatic Prandtl slope flows due to the dominance of the normal component of the buoyancy force over flow shear. Here…
Impact of stratification mechanisms on turbulent characteristics of stable open-channel flows
Cheng-Nian Xiao, Inanc Senocak
Flow over a surface can be stratified by imposing a fixed mean vertical temperature (density) gradient profile throughout or via cooling at the surface. These distinct mechanisms c…
Linear Stability of Katabatic Slope Flows with Ambient Wind Forcing
Cheng-Nian Xiao, Inanc Senocak
We investigate the stability of katabatic slope flows over an infinitely wide and uniformly cooled planar surface subject to an additional forcing due to a uniform downslope wind f…