Modeling diffusion in the Antarctic circumpolar current

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Hodges, Clifford H. (Clifford Hill), 1979-
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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John Marshall.
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Abstract
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.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004.
 
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 29).
 
Date issued
2004
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28395
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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