Author(s): C. Kranenburg
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Abstract: Laboratory experiments on wind -dr iven mixed-layer deepening in a wind flume are described for the situation where the wind shear has become balanced by a streamwise pressure difference so that the mean mixed- layer velocity has vanished. The results were obtained at two lengths of the flume, and include visual observations, entrainment rates and density profiles. An internal, upwind wedge formed by accumulation of mixed water was observed in all experiments. A simple mathematical model explaining the small effect of the length of the flume on the entrainment rates is presented.
Year: 1985