Dynamics of fingering convection. Part 1 Small-scale fluxes and large-scale instabilities

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 677, Issue , 2011, Pages 530-553

  Traxler, A ^a   Stellmach, S ^a,b,c   Garaud, P ^a   Radko, T ^d   Brummell, N ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

double diffusive convection; geophysical and geological flows

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; MEAN FIELD THEORY; MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STABILITY; STAIRS;

COLLECTIVE INSTABILITIES; DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION; GENERALIZED MEAN-FIELD THEORY; GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOLOGICAL FLOWS; LARGE-SCALE INSTABILITY; LARGE-SCALE PERTURBATIONS; THERMOHALINE STAIRCASE; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DOUBLE DIFFUSION; FINGERING; FLUID DYNAMICS; SALINITY; STRATIFIED FLUID; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 79959265959     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.98     Document Type: Article

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