Shear and mixing in oscillatory doubly diffusive convection

DOI10.1080/03091920290029031MaRDI QIDQ3080112zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors F. Paparella, Edward A. Spiegel, Suzanne Talon

Publication date 5 March 2011

Published in Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0203282

zbMATH Keywords

mixingshearoscillatory doubly diffusive convectionsemiconvection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffusion and convection (76R99) Convection in hydrodynamic stability (76E06)

Abstract: To investigate the mechanism of mixing in oscillatory doubly diffusive (ODD) convection, we truncate the horizontal modal expansion of the Boussinesq equations to obtain a simplified model of the process. In the astrophysically interesting case with low Prandtl number, large-scale shears are generated as in ordinary thermal convection. The interplay between the shear and the oscillatory convection produces intermittent overturning of the fluid with significant mixing. By contrast, in the parameter regime appropriate to sea water, large-scale flows are not generated by the convection. However, if such flows are imposed externally, intermittent overturning with enhanced mixing is observed.

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