Three-dimensional simulation of the thermohaline-driven buoyancy of a brine parcel

Alfio Grillo; Michael Lampe; Gabriel Wittum

doi:10.1007/s00791-010-0145-1

Three-dimensional simulation of the thermohaline-driven buoyancy of a brine parcel

Alfio Grillo^*, Michael Lampe, Gabriel Wittum

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We provide three-dimensional numerical simulations of the thermohaline-driven buoyancy of a brine "parcel" immersed in an initially homogeneous porous medium of hydrological interest. Our purpose is to improve our understanding of the thermohaline flow through the 3D visualization of the evolving patterns generated by the distributions of brine, temperature, and fluid density in the porous medium. We propose a possible physical interpretation of our results, which are obtained within the approximations usually employed in the context of density- and temperature-driven flow.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	287-297
Number of pages	11
Journal	Computing and Visualization in Science
Volume	13
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00791-010-0145-1
State	Published - Aug 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Brine parcel
Buoyancy
Porous media
Stability
Thermohaline flow

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Software
Modeling and Simulation
General Engineering
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computational Theory and Mathematics

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Three-dimensional simulation of the thermohaline-driven buoyancy of a brine parcel

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