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Phaseflow simulates the convection-coupled melting and solidification of phase-change materials.
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Compositional convection (from salinity gradient) #33

Closed agzimmerman closed 6 years ago

agzimmerman commented 7 years ago

Once we have reproduced the benchmarks from danaila2014newton, we want to add an additional convection-diffusion equation (and an additional variable) for salt water salinity. This will add a density variation that further drives convection.

agzimmerman commented 7 years ago

@julekowalski , what relevant literature do you already know about? I only have saved the paper

WETTLAUFER, J., WORSTER, M., & HUPPERT, H. (1997). Natural convection during solidification of an alloy from above with application to the evolution of sea ice. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 344, 291-316. doi:10.1017/S0022112097006022

agzimmerman commented 7 years ago

@KaiSchu recommends looking at the book "Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer".

agzimmerman commented 7 years ago

First we can verify mass diffusion exactly, then mass convection-diffusion, then couple it with phase change (with a source of the other component coming from the phase-change).

agzimmerman commented 7 years ago

First I'm going to consider the solidification of a binary allow in 1D. See issue #83.

agzimmerman commented 6 years ago

This issue is superseded by #83.