Bulletin of the American Physical Society
76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics
Sunday–Tuesday, November 19–21, 2023; Washington, DC
Session X28: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Stratified Flows II
8:00 AM–10:36 AM,
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Room: 152A
Chair: Michael Allshouse, Northeastern University
Abstract: X28.00003 : Horizontal convection in stratified systems*
8:26 AM–8:39 AM
Presenter:
Daisuke Noto
(University of Pennsylvania)
Authors:
Daisuke Noto
(University of Pennsylvania)
Hugo N Ulloa
(University of Pennsylvania)
Yuji Tasaka
(Hokkaido University)
atmospheres. HC often occurs in stratified systems, leading to a competition between the stabilizing effect of background stratification and the destabilizing effects of baroclinic adjustment. This competition ultimately determines the fluid dynamics of the stratified HC (SHC) system. We theoretically derived the intrinsic length scale of SHC, the entrainment depth of the overturning circulation, based on the available potential energy of the system. We performed laboratory-scale experiments of SHC to demonstrate the significance of this length scale. Furthermore, the fluid dynamics of SHC, including flow structures, fluid transports, and mechanical energy partitions, is discussed with and without the influence of basin-topography is discussed.
*The authors are grateful for the financial support obtained through startup funding EES Penn.
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