12.820 | Spring 2006 | Graduate

Turbulence in the Ocean and Atmosphere

Lecture Notes

ch18.pdf

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Lecture notes about boundary layer turbulence, frictional boundary layers, turbulent motions near a wall, equations of motion, viscous sublayer: law of the wall, turbulent boundary layer: velocity defect law, inertial sublayer: logarithmic layer, coherent structures, stratified boundary layers, the velocity profile, the buoyancy profile, and planetary boundary layers.

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Lecture Notes