Intermittency and critical mixing in internally heated stratified channel flow

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Through direct numerical simulations we investigate the effects of spatiotemporal intermittency as a result of stable stratification in surface heated stratified open channel flow. By adapting the density inversion criterion method of Portwood et al. [J. Fluid Mech., vol. 807, 2016, R2] for our flow, we demonstrate that the flow may be robustly separated into regions of active turbulence for which and surrounding quiescent fluid, where is the buoyancy Reynolds number. The intermittency in the flow spontaneously manifests as a deformed horizontal interface between the upper quiescent and lower turbulent flow, characterised by vigorous mixing from 'overturning' shear instabilities. The resulting vertical intermittency profile is accurately predicted by a local Monin-Obukhov length normalised by viscous wall units such that the flow displays intermittency within the parameter range of. By considering conditional averages of the 'turbulent' and 'quiescent' flow separately, we find the 'turbulent' flow within this region to be described by constant critical gradient Richardson and turbulent Froude numbers of and. We find that the turbulent flow continues to display a relationship when

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Issaev, V., Williamson, N., & Armfield, S. W. (2023). Intermittency and critical mixing in internally heated stratified channel flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 963. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.303

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