The physics of freezing and melting in the presence of flows

Y Du, E Calzavarini, C Sun - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ice in the environment plays a central role in both global-scale processes on Earth and
many human activities. Issues related to its description, including the modelling of natural ice …

Abrupt transition from slow to fast melting of ice

R Yang, KL Chong, HR Liu, R Verzicco, D Lohse - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
How fast ice melts in turbulent flows is key to many natural and industrial processes, most
notably the melting of ice in the polar regions. To get a better quantitative understanding of …

Rotating convective turbulence in moderate to high Prandtl number fluids

JA Abbate, JM Aurnou - Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Rotating convective turbulence is ubiquitously found across geophysical settings, such as
surface and subsurface oceans, planetary atmospheres, molten metal planetary cores …

[HTML][HTML] Rotating convection with a melting boundary: An application to the icy moons

T Gastine, B Favier - Icarus, 2025 - Elsevier
A better understanding of the ice-ocean couplings is required to better characterise the
hydrosphere of the icy moons. Using global numerical simulations in spherical geometry, we …

Instability, bifurcation and nonlinear dynamics of Poiseuille flow in fluid overlying an anisotropic and inhomogeneous porous domain

A Aleria, P Bera - International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 2024 - Elsevier
The present study focuses on the finite amplitude analysis of Poiseuille flow in an
anisotropic and inhomogeneous porous domain that underlies a fluid domain. The nonlinear …

Competition between Rayleigh–Bénard and horizontal convection

LA Couston, J Nandaha, B Favier - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
We investigate the dynamics of a fluid layer subject to a bottom heat flux and a top
monotonically increasing temperature profile driving horizontal convection (HC). We use …

Predicting convection configurations in coupled fluid–porous systems

M McCurdy, NJ Moore, X Wang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
A ubiquitous arrangement in nature is a free-flowing fluid coupled to a porous medium, for
example a river or lake lying above a porous bed. Depending on the environmental …

Melting and solidification in periodically modulated thermal convection

R Yang, KL Chong, HR Liu, R Verzicco… - Journal of Fluid …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Melting and solidification in periodically time-modulated thermal convection are relevant for
numerous natural and engineering systems, for example, glacial melting under periodic sun …

Classical and local similarity in problems of turbulent convection: Extension of Prandtl semi-empirical theory for horizontal layers of water and air mediums

AN Vulfson, PV Nikolaev - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
A variant of the local similarity theory is considered, assuming a priori specification of two
basic dimensional parameters: the second moment of vertical velocity and the “spectral” …

Universal properties of penetrative turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Q Wang, P Reiter, D Lohse, O Shishkina - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
Penetrative turbulence, which occurs in a convectively unstable fluid layer and penetrates
into an adjacent, originally stably stratified layer, is numerically and theoretically analyzed …