Applied Turbulence Modelling in Marine Waters

• Main Author: Burchard, Hans (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 100
• Subjects: Oceanography.; Continuum physics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Geophysics.; Fluids.; Classical and Continuum Physics.; Applications of Mathematics.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.
• Physical Description: XIII, 218 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540454199
• ISSN: 0930-0317 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45419-5

This book gives an overview of statistical turbulence modelling with applications to oceanography and limnology. It discusses how these models can be derived from the Naiver-Stokes equations and how step by step simplications result in models applicable to numerical simulations for realistic solutions. Possibilities for considering additional effects such as breaking surface waves and Langmuir circulation are discussed. Relevant methods for the numerical discretisation of the turbulence models are presented. Results from one -dimensional simulations are shown for various oceanic and limnic water column studies. The integration of these turbulence models in three-dimensional models are some selected results are also given.