Equilibration of weakly nonlinear salt fingers

DOI10.1017/S0022112009992552zbMath1189.76236MaRDI QIDQ3570483

Timour Radko

Publication date: 25 June 2010

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17)

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Mechanics of thermohaline interleaving: beyond the empirical flux laws ⋮ Equilibrium transport in double-diffusive convection ⋮ Staircase solutions and stability in vertically confined salt-finger convection ⋮ Jet formation in salt-finger convection: a modified Rayleigh–Bénard problem ⋮ Mathematical justification of two reduced models for salt fingering convection

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