Modeling diffusion in the Antarctic circumpolar current

• Main Author: Hodges, Clifford H. (Clifford Hill), 1979-
• Other Authors: John Marshall., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2004
• Subjects: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Clifford; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28395

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 29). In order to understand the role of eddies in lateral mixing in a rotating fluid, a small scale laboratory model is constructed. An experiment is carried out in a rotating, differentially heated annulus and the evolution of a dye tracer mixed by turbulent motions is studied. Images are analyzed to extract the concentration mappings of tracer throughout the tank at each time instance and a diffusion coefficient K(r) is inferred. by Clifford H. Hodges. M.Eng.