3 papers
physics.flu-dyn2010
Dynamics of fingering convection II: The formation of thermohaline staircases
S. Stellmach, A. Traxler, P. Garaud +2
Regions of the ocean's thermocline unstable to salt fingering are often observed to host thermohaline staircases, stacks of deep well-mixed convective layers separated by thin stab…
physics.flu-dyn2010
Dynamics of fingering convection I: Small-scale fluxes and large-scale instabilities
A. Traxler, S. Stellmach, P. Garaud +2
Double-diffusive instabilities are often invoked to explain enhanced transport in stably-stratified fluids. The most-studied natural manifestation of this process, fingering convec…
physics.flu-dyn2009
Direct Numerical Simulation of 3D Salt Fingers: From Secondary Instability to Chaotic Convection
Julian A. Simeonov, Melvin E. Stern, Timour Radko
The amplification and equilibration of three-dimensional salt fingers in unbounded uniform vertical gradients of temperature and salinity is modeled with a Direct Numerical Simulat…