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Geophysical turbulence: Rotation & Stratification
Environment flows, characterized by large numbers of Reynolds, exhibit many forms of developed turbulence, shaped by the effects of gravity and Coriolis forces. Gravity is the source of buoyancy forces and leads to a stratification of flows. The LEGI Coriolis platform is the only experimental facility in the world where the combined effects of turbulence, stratification and rotation can be studied in a fully turbulent regime. The LEGI Coriolis Platform is also part of the infrastructures of the european Consortiums Hydralab+ and EuHit. A description of the projects performed within these european cooperation projects is available here
2D stratified turbulence
Oceanic statistical measures are often interpreted as the signature of internal waves. Unfortunately, nobody has never been able to reproduce ocean statistics with numerical simulations, and in (...)
2D shallow-water turbulence
The dynamics of irrotational shallow water wave turbulence forced in large scales and dissipated at small scales is investigated. First, we derive the shallow water analogue of the `four-fifths (...)
