Thermohaline stability of horizontal layers of saltwater

Conference · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999

OSTI ID:20030580

Shamsundar, N; Krishna, C N

The thermohaline stability of horizontal layers of saltwater (with cold fresh water on top of warm salty water) was studied using analytical and numerical methods. The marginal oscillatory instability state was calculated for different boundary conditions for uniform s well as for nonuniform temperature and salinity gradients. A correlation was developed to use the ratio of the mean gradient to the maximum gradient to enable stability results for nonlinear gradients to be extrapolated from simpler results for linear gradients. Contrary to published expectations, localized stability criteria are not suitable for calculating the effects of nonlinear temperature gradients.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Houston, TX (US)
• OSTI ID: 20030580
• Resource Relation: Conference: Renewable and advanced energy systems for the 21st Century, Maui, HI (US), 04/11/1999--04/15/1999; Other Information: 1 CD-ROM. Operating system required: Windows i386, i486, Pentium or Pentium Pro, MS Windows 3.1, 95 or NT3.51; Macintosh, Power Macintosh with a 68020 or greater processor, System software version 7.1, 3.5 MB RAM; UNIX; PBD: 1999; Related Information: In: Renewable and advanced energy systems for the 21st century, RAES'99: Proceedings, by Hogan, R.; Kim, Y.; Kleis, S.; O'Neal, D.; Tanaka, T. [eds.], [1125] pages.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
SOLAR PONDS
STABILITY
STRATIFICATION
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
SALINITY GRADIENTS
TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS
SALINITY GRADIENT POWER PLANTS