Planktonic interactions and chaotic advection in Langmuir circulation

M A  Bees; I  Mezic; J  McGlade

Planktonic interactions and chaotic advection in Langmuir circulation

M A Bees, I Mezic, J McGlade

Mathematics

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Abstract

The role of unsteady laminar flows for planktonic communities is investigated. Langmuir circulation is used, as a typical medium-scale structure, to illustrate mechanisms for the generation of plankton patches. Two behaviours are evident: chaotic regions that help to spread plankton and locally coherent regions that do not mix with the chaotic regions and which persist for long periods of time. The interaction of populations of phytoplankton with zooplankton is discussed, taking into account the variations in plankton buoyancy. (C) 1998 IMACS/Elsevier Science B.V.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	527-544
Number of pages	18
Journal	Mathematics and computers in simulation
Volume	44
Issue number	6
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1998

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