Pascale Garaud; Department of Applied Mathematics; University of California, Santa Cruz
Regimes of stratified turbulence across parameter space: from asymptotic analysis to DNS
In this talk I will present recent theoretical and numerical progress in modeling the dynamics of stratified turbulence in regimes appropriate of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, of the interiors of giant planets, and of stellar interiors. Multiscale asymptotic analysis reveals the existence of several different dynamical regimes, each with its own specific set of scaling laws relating the turbulence properties to the stratification. Direct Numerical Simulations are then used to test and successfully validate the model predictions.