THERMOSOLUTAL CONVECTION IN TWO-LAYERED AND CONTINUOUSLY STRATIFIED SYSTEMS COMPOSED OF HEAT-SALT COMPLEX
Akira Murota, Kohji MICHIOKU · Doboku Gakkai Ronbunshu · 1984
In order to study the mass transport process produced by the thermal convection, the thermosolutal convection in the two-layered and continuously stratified systems composed of heat-salt complex is investigated, experimentally and theoretically. Our preceding results, i. e., the stability criterion for the system with arbitrary distribution profiles of two density components and the evaluation of the diffusive and convective components of the heat-salt flux across the density interface, are introduced to develop the numerical model for the mixing process. The numerical results agrees well with the experimental data. In addition, the transforming process on the internal energy into the potential energy through the vertical mixing is quantitatively understood.