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Experimental study of the convection in a thin cylindrical gas layer with imposed bottom and top fluxes and imposed side temperature
Florian Rein, Laure Carénini, Florian Fichot +2
We investigate convection in a thin cylindrical gas layer with an imposed flux at the bottom and a fixed temperature along the side, using a combination of direct numerical simulat…
Coupled convection and internal gravity waves excited in water around its density maximum at 4°C
Pierre Léard, Benjamin Favier, Patrice Le Gal +1
Coupled mixed convective and stratified systems are common in natural flows. To study experimentally the associated dynamics, we use a singular property of water: its non-linear eq…
Multi-modal excitation to model the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
Pierre Léard, Daniel Lecoanet, Michael Le Bars
The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) of stratospheric winds is the most striking example of mean-flow generation and reversal by the non-linear interactions of internal waves. Prev…
Dynamics of a reactive spherical particle falling in a linearly stratified fluid
Ludovic Huguet, Victor Barge-Zwick, Michael Le Bars
Motivated by numerous geophysical applications, we have carried out laboratory experiments of a reactive (i.e. melting) solid sphere freely falling by gravity in a stratified envir…
Experimental study of the non-linear saturation of the elliptical instability: inertial wave turbulence versus geostrophic turbulence
Thomas Le Reun, Benjamin Favier, Michael Le Bars
In this paper, we present an experimental investigation of the turbulent saturation of the flow driven by parametric resonance of inertial waves in a rotating fluid. In our set-up,…
Entrainment induced by waves at a density interface impinged by a turbulent jet
Johann Herault, Giulio Facchini, Michael Le Bars
Using water/salty-water laboratory experiments}, we investigate the mechanism of erosion by a turbulent jet impinging on a density interface, for moderate Reynolds and Froude numbe…