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JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 427, Issue -, Pages 205-239Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200000241X
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The buoyancy range, which represents a transition from large-scale wave-dominated motions to small-scale turbulence in the oceans and the atmosphere, is investigated through large-eddy simulations. The model presented here uses a continual forcing based on large-scale standing internal waves and has a spectral truncation in the isotropic inertial range. Evidence is presented for a break in the energy spectra from the anisotropic k(-3) buoyancy range to the small-scale k(-5/3) isotropic inertial range. Density structures that form during wave breaking and periods of high strain rate are analysed. Elongated vertical structures produced during periods of strong straining motion are found to collapse in the subsequent vertically compressional phase of the strain resulting in a zone or patch of mixed fluid.
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