Bulletin of the American Physical Society
74th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 66, Number 17
Sunday–Tuesday, November 21–23, 2021; Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona
Session N01: Poster Session (3:20-4:05pm)
3:20 PM,
Monday, November 22, 2021
Abstract: N01.00112 : Heat and salt transfer in subglacial plumes rising along a vertical ice face *
Presenter:
Muhammad A Mustafa
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Authors:
Chris LAI
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Muhammad A Mustafa
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
In this poster, we will present our laboratory results of heat and salt transfer across the ice-ocean interface formed between a subglacial plume and an initially smooth vertical ice face, a commonly found configuration in Greenlandic fjords. The laboratory experiments were done in a purpose-built water tank, inside a climate-controlled cold room and we simultaneously measured the temperature, salinity, and fluid velocity of subglacial plumes at high (~mm scale) spatiotemporal resolutions under realistic field conditions, using state-of-the-art particle image velocimetry (PIV) and laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) techniques for measurements. These experiments allow us to systematically re-examine the assumptions and simplifications made in existing melt-rate models, with the goal of deriving a revised and complete theory of melt at the ice-ocean interface.
*Georgia Institute of Technology, Small Bets Seed grant.
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