John R. Taylor
NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
email: jrtaylor~AT~mit.edu
voice: (858) 531-9825
Personal Information: CV
Dissertation: Full PDF File (28.9 Mb)
Published Journal Articles:
• Thomas L.N. and J.R. Taylor (2010) Reduction of the usable wind-work on the general circulation by forced symmetric instability. Geophysical Research Letters. 37, L18606, doi: 10.1029/2010GL044680• Taylor J.R. and R. Ferrari (2010) Buoyancy and wind-driven convection at mixed layer density fronts. Journal of Physical Oceanography 40, 1222-1242.
• Taylor J.R. and R. Ferrari (2009) On the equilibration of a symmetrically unstable front via a secondary shear instability. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 622, 103-113.
• Gayen B., S. Sarkar, and J.R. Taylor (2009) Large eddy simulation of a stratified boundary layer under an oscillatory current. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 643, 233-266.
• Taylor J.R. and S. Sarkar (2008) Direct and large eddy simulations of a bottom Ekman layer under and external stratification. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 29, 3, 721-732.
• Taylor J.R. and S. Sarkar (2007) Internal gravity waves generated by a turbulent bottom Ekman layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 590, 1, 331-354.
• Taylor J.R., S. Sarkar, and V. Armenio (2005). Large eddy simulation of stably stratified open channel flow. Phys. Fluids 17, 116602
• Bennett A.F., J.R. Taylor, and B.S. Chua (2005) Lattice Boltzmann open boundaries for hydrodynamic models. Journal of Computational Physics, 203, 89-111.
• Taylor J.R., K.K. Falkner, U. Schauer, and M. Meredith (2003) Quantitative considerations of dissolved Barium as a tracer in the Arctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (C12), 3374.
Conference Proceedings:
• Taylor J.R., and S. Sarkar (2007). Near-wall modeling for large eddy simulation of an oceanic bottom boundary layer (Invited). Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics.
• Taylor J.R., and S. Sarkar (2007). Internal wave generation by a
turbulent bottom boundary layer. Proceedings of the Fifth International
Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics.
• Taylor J.R., and S. Sarkar (2007). Large eddy simulation of a stratified benthic boundary layer. Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena-5 Proceedings.
• Taylor J.R., S. Sarkar, and V. Armenio (2005). Open channel flow stratified by a surface heat flux. Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena-4 Proceedings.
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