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The stability of long steady three-dimensional salt fingers to long-wavelength perturbations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

Judith Y. Holyer
Judith Y. Holyer
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, England, BS8 1TW
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Abstract

The stability of three-dimensional salt fingers to three-dimensional perturbations is considered. It is found that when square fingers are subjected to long-wavelength perturbations, then the same types of instability exist as for two-dimensional salt fingers. There are quantitative changes to the growth rates and the positions of marginal stability.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 156 , July 1985 , pp. 495 - 503
Copyright
© 1985 Cambridge University Press

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