On the helical flow of Langmuir circulation - Approaching the process of suspension freezing

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-57

  Dethleff, Dirk ^a   Kempema, Edward W ^b   Koch, Reinhard ^a   Chubarenko, Irina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Frazil ice; Langmuir circulation; Sediment entrainment; Suspension freezing; Tank ice formation

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CRYSTALS; EXPERIMENTS; ICE; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WATER ANALYSIS;

BUOYANT PARTICLES; CONCEPTUAL MODELS; CONVERGENCE ZONES; COUNTER-ROTATING; DIGITAL VIDEOS; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; FRAZIL CRYSTALS; FRAZIL ICE; FREEZING CONDITIONS; FREEZING WATERS; GREASE ICES; HELICAL FLOWS; LAGRANGIAN; LANGMUIR; LANGMUIR CIRCULATION; MICRO-SCALE; ROTARY MOTIONS; SUSPENDED PARTICLES; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; SUSPENSION FREEZING; TANK ICE FORMATION; WATER COLUMNS;

FREEZING;

ENTRAINMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREEZING; LANGMUIR CIRCULATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

EID: 60849117881     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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