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Direct Numerical Simulation of 3D Salt Fingers: From Secondary Instability to Chaotic Convection

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simeonov_fingers_full_mpg2.mp4 (81.09 MB)
simeonov_fingers_half_mpg1.mp4 (9.61 MB)
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Author
Simeonov, Julian
Stern, Melvin
Radko, Timour
Abstract

The amplification and equilibration of three-dimensional salt fingers in unbounded uniform vertical gradients of temperature and salinity is studied with a Direct Numerical Simulation in a triply periodic computational domain. A fluid dynamics video of the simulation shows that the secondary instability of the fastest growing square-planform finger mode is a combination of the well-known vertical shear instability of two-dimensional fingers [Holyer, 1984] and a new horizontal shear mode.

Date Issued
2009-10-14T01:29:30Z
Keywords
salt fingers
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direct simulations

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