Title
TURBULENT FREE CONVECTION ON A LARGE VERTICAL ICEWALL IN SEAWATER.
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Date of Original Version
12-1-1984
Abstract
A local-similarity analysis is made for turbulent free convection melting of a vertical ice wall in seawater. The ice wall is nominally many meters high and the water rather cold, simulating the melting of icebergs of large draft. The analysis leads to three coupled nonlinear differential equations for the velocity, temperature, and salinity distributions. Numerical results show that the salinity layer is thinner than the temperature layer, which in turn is much thinner than the velocity boundary layer. These thickness differences make shooting methods unreliable, so the system was uncoupled and then gradually recoupled with a small increasing parameter.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Paper)
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Gominho, Luis C., and Frank M. White. "TURBULENT FREE CONVECTION ON A LARGE VERTICAL ICEWALL IN SEAWATER.." American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Paper) (1984). https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/mcise_facpubs/1038