Turbulence and turbulent heat/mass transfer in oceanic boundary layers

The project will use DNS to study turbulence in oceanic surface and bottom layers. Such a study will contribute to a deeper understanding of the processes in these layers such as turbulent diffusion and gas exchange. The DNS results will also be used for validating an anistropic LES sub-grid scale turbulence model. LES codes are used for processes on larger scale than what is possible with DNS. The project is a collaboration between Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan. The project aims for educating two experts (the doctoral students) in turbulence and turbulent modeling.