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most citedMixing across stable density interfaces in forced stratified turbulence

10 citations · 31 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.flu-dyn2026

Impact of alignments between fluctuating and mean density gradients on the scale-dependent energetics of stably stratified turbulence

Soumak Bhattacharjee, Stephen M. de Bruyn Kops, Andrew D. Bragg

Non-trivial alignments between vorticity and the strain-rate tensor play an important role in the evolution of velocity gradients and the energy cascade in isotropic turbulence. He…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Evolution of passive scalar mixing layers in stratified and unstratified homogeneous turbulence

Stephen M. de Bruyn Kops, Peter N. Blossey, James J. Riley

High-resolution large-eddy simulations of decaying stratified and unstratified homogeneous turbulence are used to understand the mixing of passive scalars in stably stratified flow…

physics.comp-ph2026

Tensor network compression using fluid dynamics as a testbed: Analytical foundations in one dimension

Matthew D. Horner, Callum W. Duncan, Oliver T. Brown +2

High performance computers produce extreme-scale data sets that require sampling or compression if they are to be used to their full potential. Existing data compression techniques…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 1 cited

Machine-Learned Closure of URANS for Stably Stratified Turbulence: Connecting Physical Timescales & Data Hyperparameters of Deep Time-Series Models

Muralikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena, Demetri Liousas, Andrew D. Simin +4

We develop time-series machine learning (ML) methods for closure modeling of the Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (URANS) equations applied to stably stratified turbulence…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Asymptotic analysis of mixing in stratified turbulent flows, and the conditions for an inertial sub-range

Andrew D. Bragg, Stephen M. de Bruyn Kops

In an important study, Maffioli et al. (J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 794 , 2016) used a scaling analysis to predict that in the weakly stratified flow regime ( is the hori…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 1 cited

Prandtl number effects on extreme mixing events in forced stratified turbulence

Nicolaos Petropoulos, Miles M. P. Couchman, Ali Mashayek +2

Relatively strongly stratified turbulent flows tend to self-organise into a 'layered anisotropic stratified turbulence' (LAST) regime, characterised by relatively deep and well-mix…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 5 cited

Understanding the effect of Prandtl number on momentum and scalar mixing rates in neutral and stably stratified flows using gradient field dynamics

Andrew D. Bragg, Stephen M. de Bruyn Kops

Recently, direct numerical simulations (DNS) of stably stratified turbulence have shown that as the Prandtl number () is increased from 1 to 7, the mean turbulent potential ene…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 10 cited

Mixing across stable density interfaces in forced stratified turbulence

Miles M. P. Couchman, Stephen M. de Bruyn Kops, Colm-cille P. Caulfield

Understanding how turbulence enhances irreversible scalar mixing in density-stratified fluids is a central problem in geophysical fluid dynamics. While isotropic overturning region…

physics.flu-dyn2021

Probabilistic neural networks for predicting energy dissipation rates in geophysical turbulent flows

Sam F. Lewin, Stephen M. de Bruyn Kops, Gavin D. Portwood +1

Motivated by oceanographic observational datasets, we propose a probabilistic neural network (PNN) model for calculating turbulent energy dissipation rates from vertical columns of…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 7 cited

Analysis of scale-dependent kinetic and potential energy in sheared, stably stratified turbulence

Xiaolong Zhang, Rohit Dhariwal, Gavin Portwood +2

Budgets of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and turbulent potential energy (TPE) at different scales in sheared, stably stratified turbulence are analyzed using a filtering ap…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 7 cited

Implications of inertial subrange scaling for stably stratified mixing

G. D. Portwood, S. M. de Bruyn Kops, C. P. Caulfield

The effects of turbulent dynamic range on scalar mixing in stably stratified turbulence are investigated by an adaptation of the theoretical passive scalar modelling arguments of B…