Topography generation by melting and freezing in a turbulent shear flow
Topography generation by melting and freezing in a turbulent shear flow
We report an idealized numerical study of a melting and freezing solid adjacent to a turbulent, buoyancy-affected shear flow, in order to improve our understanding of topography generation by phase changes in the environment. We use the phase-field method to dynamically couple the heat equation for the solid with the …