Articles | Volume 25, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-457-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-25-457-2018
Research article
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29 Jun 2018
Research article |  | 29 Jun 2018

Stratified Kelvin–Helmholtz turbulence of compressible shear flows

Omer San and Romit Maulik

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We study the scaling laws of stratified shear flows by performing high-resolution numerical simulations of inviscid compressible turbulence induced by Kelvin–Helmholtz instability.