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SUMMARY:Stratified flows: From the lab to the ocean - Professor Tom Peacoc
 k\, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering\, MIT
DTSTART:20080228T113000Z
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CONTACT:Anne Alexander
DESCRIPTION:"We live in a stratified world\; the density of the ocean incr
 eases with depth while that of the atmosphere decreases with height. Our r
 esearch focuses on both fundamental and applied studies of stratified flui
 ds\, with particular consideration to ocean environments. Here\, we presen
 t the latest results from two ongoing \nexperiments. The first concerns th
 e generation of internal waves by ocean ridges\, and uses the latest exper
 imental techniques to study dynamics at the \nLuzon Strait\, which is the 
 origin of some of the largest internal waves ever observed. The second con
 cerns a remarkable new mechanism we have discovered \nfor spontaneously pr
 opelling objects in stratified environments."
LOCATION:Open Plan Area\, BP Institute\, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ
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