Mathematical modeling of macrosegregation of iron carbon binary alloy: Role of double diffusive convection

1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 1069-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Singh ◽  
B. Basu
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Binary Alloy ◽  
Double Diffusive Convection ◽  
Diffusive Convection ◽  
Double Diffusive

scholarly journals Reply

2008 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 1095-1097 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Schultz ◽  
Adam J. Durant ◽  
Jerry M. Straka ◽  
Timothy J. Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Ash ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Double Diffusive Convection ◽  
Vertical Temperature ◽  
Effective Mechanism ◽  
Gravitational Forces ◽  
Salt Fingers ◽  
Diffusive Convection ◽  
Double Diffusive

Abstract Doswell has proposed a mechanism for mammatus called double-diffusive convection, the mechanism responsible for salt fingers in the ocean. The physics of salt fingers and mammatus are different. Unlike the ocean where the diffusivity is related to molecular motions within solution, the hydrometeors in clouds are affected by inertial and gravitational forces. Doswell misinterprets the vertical temperature profiles through mammatus and fails to understand the role of settling in volcanic ash clouds. Furthermore, given that mixing is a much more effective means of transferring heat in the atmosphere and given idealized numerical model simulations of mammatus showing that the destabilizing effect of subcloud sublimation is an effective mechanism for mammatus, this reply argues that double-diffusive convection is unlikely to explain mammatus, either in cumulonimbus anvils or in volcanic ash clouds.

scholarly journals The role of double-diffusive convection in basal melting of Antarctic ice shelves

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. e2007541118
Author(s):  
Madelaine Gamble Rosevear ◽  
Bishakhdatta Gayen ◽  
Benjamin Keith Galton-Fenzi
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Layer ◽  
Vertical Shear ◽  
Scale Model ◽  
Double Diffusive Convection ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Ice Shelf ◽  
Ice Shelves ◽  
Diffusive Convection ◽  
Double Diffusive

The Antarctic Ice Sheet loses about half its mass through ocean-driven melting of its fringing ice shelves. However, the ocean processes governing ice shelf melting are not well understood, contributing to uncertainty in projections of Antarctica’s contribution to global sea level. We use high-resolution large-eddy simulation to examine ocean-driven melt, in a geophysical-scale model of the turbulent ice shelf–ocean boundary layer, focusing on the ocean conditions observed beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. We quantify the role of double-diffusive convection in determining ice shelf melt rates and oceanic mixed layer properties in relatively warm and low-velocity cavity environments. We demonstrate that double-diffusive convection is the first-order process controlling the melt rate and mixed layer evolution at these flow conditions, even more important than vertical shear due to a mean flow, and is responsible for the step-like temperature and salinity structure, or thermohaline staircase, observed beneath the ice. A robust feature of the multiday simulations is a growing saline diffusive sublayer that drives a time-dependent melt rate. This melt rate is lower than current ice–ocean parameterizations, which consider only shear-controlled turbulent melting, would predict. Our main finding is that double-diffusive convection is an important process beneath ice shelves, yet is currently neglected in ocean–climate models.

DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION IN LIQUID FREON

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Dupont ◽  
O. Gorieu ◽  
Hassan Peerhossaini ◽  
M. Kestoras
Keyword(s):  
Double Diffusive Convection ◽  
Diffusive Convection ◽  
Double Diffusive
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