Applied Turbulence in Coastal Sciences: From Physical to Biogeochemistry Processes
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Environmental Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 2913

Special Issue Editor
Interests: hydrodynamics; ecological; modelling; estuarine; coastal circulation; climate changes
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Dear Colleagues,
Turbulence is omnipresent and even common whenever dealing with fluid flows, whether considering flowing through small scales domains, such as pipes, or through large scales ones, such as in the atmosphere and the ocean-surface boundary layers. Turbulence has a significant impact on the coastal dynamics processes, where its microstructure and transport properties crucially influence the water column properties from the physical and the biogeochemistry points of view. In addition, turbulence is important when considering fluxes and processes at the ocean-atmosphere interface, while marine and atmospheric turbulence play an important role in meteorology and climatology. On the other hand, solving turbulence remains today an important issue and a theoretical challenge. In most cases, a common approach consists, in general, of parameterizing the turbulence through semi-empirical formulations.
The main goal of this Special Issue is aimed at building synergies between fundamental and applied approaches of turbulence, with special emphasis on the coastal environment in order to bring together different experts and models, including marine, atmospheric and climatological sciences. We welcome papers dealing with theoretical, modelling, applied and observational approaches of turbulence that allow a better understanding of its advancement and applications.
This Special Issue covers the following topics:
- Turbulence in fluid dynamics: State-of-the-art;
- Turbulence in the atmosphere and coastal water dynamics;
- Turbulence and transport processes at the atmosphere and ocean interface: interactions;
- Turbulence and physical and biogeochemical interactions in coastal areas;
- Turbulence and sediments transport in coastal areas;
- Turbulence and waves generation in coastal areas;
- Turbulence and tidal processes in shallow coastal areas;
- Turbulence: ocean and atmosphere models.
Dr. José F. Lopes
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- state-of-the-art of turbulence
- atmospheric and marine turbulence
- atmosphere-ocean interaction
- physical and biogeochemistry processes
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