Oceanography

My current research focuses on ocean mixing and turbulence. My goal is to improve our understanding of how energy and other flow properties move between scales, which is important for ensuring the accuracy of large-scale ocean models which can’t directly simulate turbulence at smaller scales. I am working with structure functions, which connect energy dissipation and related variables to the differences between flow variables (such as velocity and advection) at different grid points. These methods have a long history in isotropic flows, but there is substantial work remaining to develop and improve them for flow fields with directional dependence.