Double-diffusive interleaving due to horizontal gradients
Double-diffusive interleaving due to horizontal gradients
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由于水平梯度而产生的双扩散交错
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发表时间:
1983
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
J. Holyer
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作者:
J. Holyer
In this paper we present a linear stability analysis for an unbounded, vertically stratified fluid which has compensating horizontal temperature and salinity gradients, so there is no horizontal density gradient. We obtain the most unstable perturbation for given linear horizontal and vertical gradients and calculate the growth rates, the vertical lengthscale of the intrusion and the slope of the intrusion to the horizontal. We show that the system is most unstable to two-dimensional disturbances and that, except for a small region in which the temperature stratification is unstable and the salinity stratification is stable, the most-unstable disturbance is non-oscillatory. We also obtain a solution to the fully nonlinear equations and calculate the fluxes of heat and salt. The nonlinear solution shows that alternating interfaces of salt-finger and diffusive interfaces will eventually appear on the intrusion when the vertical stratifications are both stable.