Print Email Facebook Twitter Differential diffusive instabilities of miscible two-layer stratifications in porous media and Hele-Shaw cells Part of: 15th EuropeanTurbulence Conference 2015 (ETC15)· list the conference papers Title Differential diffusive instabilities of miscible two-layer stratifications in porous media and Hele-Shaw cells Author Gopalakrishnan, S.S. Carballido-Landeira, J. De Wit, A. Knaepen, B. Date 2015-08-26 Abstract In porous media, a stratification of a given solution on top of another miscible solution can be buoyantly unstable because of an unstable density stratification or because of differential diffusive effects. The former is the well known Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) mechanism wherein the interface is destabilized by the denser solution overlying a less dense one in the gravity field. Whereas the latter is of particular interest in the field of oceanography, when the upper solution is less dense than the lower one with the lower component diffusing faster than the upper one, resulting in a double diffusive (DD) instability. Similarly, a diffusive-layer convection (DLC) instability has also been observed for a stable density stratification with the upper solute diffusing faster than the lower one. Though the literature on differential diffusion effects is pretty vast, very few studies have managed to establish a connection, both qualitatively and quantitatively, between numerical simulations and experimental observations, which is the basis of the present study. We report our findings in a broad parameter range where the instability mechanism could be triggered by an unstable density stratification or due to differential diffusive effects, or even both, resulting in mixed modes. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:535fc0c8-acf9-4abb-9c4f-fdfbb0ab56f7 Part of collection Conference proceedings Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2015 the Authors Files PDF 350.pdf 1.44 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:535fc0c8-acf9-4abb-9c4f-fdfbb0ab56f7/datastream/OBJ/view