scholarly journals The Sensitivity of Thermohaline Groundwater Circulation to Flow and Transport Parameters: A Numerical Study Based on Double-Diffusive Convection above a Salt Dome

2009 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 771-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Holzbecher ◽  
C. Kohfahl ◽  
M. Mazurowski ◽  
A. Bącik ◽  
M. Dobies ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Study ◽  
Salt Dome ◽  
Double Diffusive Convection ◽  
Transport Parameters ◽  
Flow And Transport ◽  
Groundwater Circulation ◽  
Diffusive Convection ◽  
Double Diffusive

Numerical Study of the Onset of Double-Diffusive Cellular Convection Due to a Uniform Lateral Heat Flux

1982 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Takao ◽  
M. Tsuchiya ◽  
U. Narusawa
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flux ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Vertical Wall ◽  
Lewis Number ◽  
Double Diffusive Convection ◽  
Physical Experiments ◽  
Diffusive Convection ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Double Diffusive ◽  
Lateral Heat

When a fluid with a vertical solute gradient of (−dS/dy)0 is heated laterally, roll cells start to form at the boundary, developing into a series of convective layers. Numerical experiments were performed to investigate the onset of the abovementioned double-diffusive convection under the application of a uniform lateral heat flux. The paper reports the results and discussion of the following aspects of the stability of double-diffusive convection; (i) the relationship between the critical value, (Ra/Rs)c, above which convection cells form along the vertical wall and the nondimensional slot width, (d/L), (ii) the effect of the Lewis number on (Ra/Rs)c. It was also confirmed that values of (Ra/Rs)c as well as H/L (the nondimensional vertical size of incipient cells) obtained in this numerical experiment for wide slot widths (d/L>∼30), agreed well with those obtained previously by physical experiments.

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