Enhanced ablation of a vertical ice wall due to an external freshwater plume

DOI10.1017/jfm.2016.761zbMath1384.86011OpenAlexW2559223486MaRDI QIDQ5360631

Ross C Kerr, Craig D. McConnochie

Publication date: 28 September 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2016.761

zbMATH Keywords

ice sheetssolidification/meltingplumes/thermals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Glaciology (86A40) Stratification effects in turbulence (76F45)

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• Simulation of convection at a vertical ice face dissolving into saline water
• Time-dependent density profiles in a filling box
• Turbulent entrainment in stratified flows
• A geophysical-scale model of vertical natural convection boundary layers
• Buoyancy Effects in Fluids
• Inclined gravity currents filling basins: the impact of peeling detrainment on transport and vertical structure

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