Multicomponent convection
Abstract
The effects produced by multicomponent convection in fluids are discussed, along with linear models for the processes involved and applications. The key notion is that a fluid layer of one density is placed above a layer of a separate density and diffuse properties resulting in coupling between diffusive and convective forces and thereby transport phenomena greater than that generated within a sole fluid. Experimentally observed and numerically modeled vertical gradients are discussed in terms of laboratory data and the stability analyses of, e.g., lakes, solar ponds and LNG tanks. The derived models are shown to be applicable to Langmuir circulations in surface layers, polymer chemistry, stellar diffusion processes, metallurgy, materials sciences, geology and geophysics.
- Publication:
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Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1985AnRFM..17...11T
- Keywords:
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- Convective Flow;
- Convective Heat Transfer;
- Fluid Flow;
- Fluid Mechanics;
- Liquid-Liquid Interfaces;
- Astrophysics;
- Geology;
- Geophysics;
- Materials Science;
- Oceanography;
- Prandtl Number;
- Shadowgraph Photography;
- Sodium Chlorides;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer