Pollutant vertical mixing in stratified waters is a key factor that affects the vertical pollutant distribution in deep thermal-stratified reservoirs. This article presents an experimental study of the vertical mixing...Pollutant vertical mixing in stratified waters is a key factor that affects the vertical pollutant distribution in deep thermal-stratified reservoirs. This article presents an experimental study of the vertical mixing in thermal-stratified waters and an analysis of the retarded tracer jet diffusion in the thermocline layer. In the experiment, Reynolds number rapidly decreases from 104 to 10I. The stronger the stratification, the more seriously retarded the mixing will be. Some small tracer blobs may penetrate the thermocline layer into the hypolimnion layer even the main tracer cloud is retarded. According to its appearance, it can remain with salt-fingering, where the blobs are isolated away from the main cloud and mixed with the surround cold water in the hypolimnion layer. Therefore, the vertical distribution of the tracer under the thermocline layer would take larger values than expected. According to measurements, the isolated blob contents are accounted for about 5%-20% of the main tracer cloud, and are decreased with the increase of the stratification intensity. Results also show that the stronger the stratification, the smaller finger width would be. The averaged width of the incipient fingers is proportional to -0.3272 of the thermal Rayleigh number, Rat, in the turbulent jet fluid. power of the temperature gradient, AT/Az, or - 0.2823 power展开更多
Almost half of the oceanic water columns exhibit double-diffusion. The importance of double-diffusion in global oceans’ salt and heat fluxes, water-mass formation and mixing, and circulation is increasingly recognize...Almost half of the oceanic water columns exhibit double-diffusion. The importance of double-diffusion in global oceans’ salt and heat fluxes, water-mass formation and mixing, and circulation is increasingly recognized. However, such an important physical process in the ocean has not been well studied. One of the reasons is the difficulty of parameterizing and quantifying the processes. The paper presented here attempts to quantify the double-diffusive fluxes of salt and heat in the ocean. Previous qualitative analysis by applying the water-mass Turner angle, mTu, to the North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW) layer showed a favorable condition for salt-fingering in the upper NPIW due to the overlying warm/salty water above the cold/fresh NPIW core, and a doubly-stable condition in the lower NPIW where potential temperature decreases with depth while salinity increases, inducing double stratification with respect to both potential temperature and salinity. The present study gives a quantitative estimate of double-diffusive fluxes of salt and heat contributed by salt-fingering in the upper NPIW layer.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.50679049)
文摘Pollutant vertical mixing in stratified waters is a key factor that affects the vertical pollutant distribution in deep thermal-stratified reservoirs. This article presents an experimental study of the vertical mixing in thermal-stratified waters and an analysis of the retarded tracer jet diffusion in the thermocline layer. In the experiment, Reynolds number rapidly decreases from 104 to 10I. The stronger the stratification, the more seriously retarded the mixing will be. Some small tracer blobs may penetrate the thermocline layer into the hypolimnion layer even the main tracer cloud is retarded. According to its appearance, it can remain with salt-fingering, where the blobs are isolated away from the main cloud and mixed with the surround cold water in the hypolimnion layer. Therefore, the vertical distribution of the tracer under the thermocline layer would take larger values than expected. According to measurements, the isolated blob contents are accounted for about 5%-20% of the main tracer cloud, and are decreased with the increase of the stratification intensity. Results also show that the stronger the stratification, the smaller finger width would be. The averaged width of the incipient fingers is proportional to -0.3272 of the thermal Rayleigh number, Rat, in the turbulent jet fluid. power of the temperature gradient, AT/Az, or - 0.2823 power
基金a result of my short visit to the Physical Oceanography Laboratory of Ocean University of ChinaQingdao with support from the Foundation for Open Projects of the Key Lab.of Physical Oceanography,the Ministry of Education,China(No.200401).
文摘Almost half of the oceanic water columns exhibit double-diffusion. The importance of double-diffusion in global oceans’ salt and heat fluxes, water-mass formation and mixing, and circulation is increasingly recognized. However, such an important physical process in the ocean has not been well studied. One of the reasons is the difficulty of parameterizing and quantifying the processes. The paper presented here attempts to quantify the double-diffusive fluxes of salt and heat in the ocean. Previous qualitative analysis by applying the water-mass Turner angle, mTu, to the North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW) layer showed a favorable condition for salt-fingering in the upper NPIW due to the overlying warm/salty water above the cold/fresh NPIW core, and a doubly-stable condition in the lower NPIW where potential temperature decreases with depth while salinity increases, inducing double stratification with respect to both potential temperature and salinity. The present study gives a quantitative estimate of double-diffusive fluxes of salt and heat contributed by salt-fingering in the upper NPIW layer.
