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Double-diffusive Instability

Double-Diffusive Instability is a hydrodynamic instability arising in stratified fluids where the differential diffusion rates of two buoyancy-changing components, such as heat and salt, generate unstable density gradients that drive spontaneous overturning or fingering convection.

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Thermohaline mixing: a physical mechanism governing the photospheric composition of low-mass giants

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2007 · 321 citations · Full text

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Stability and fluctuations of a spatially periodic convective flow

Yves Pomeau, Paul Manneville · Journal de Physique Lettres · 1979 · 299 citations · Full text

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A practical indicator of the stability of the water column to double-diffusive activity

Barry Ruddick · Deep Sea Research Part A Oceanographic Research Papers · 1983 · 296 citations

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Stability analysis of soret-driven double-diffusive convection of Maxwell fluid in a porous medium

Shaowei Wang, Wenchang Tan · International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow · 2010 · 207 citations

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Nonlinear double-diffusive convection

Herbert E. Huppert, Daniel R. Moore · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1976 · 205 citations

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Authors

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  1. AD
    A. De Wit

    Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

    10 publications · 542 citations

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  2. KC
    Kirti Chandra Sahu

    Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

    9 publications · 196 citations

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  3. AZ
    Abdelfattah Zebib

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States

    7 publications · 238 citations

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  4. PG
    Pascale Garaud

    University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

    6 publications · 374 citations

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  5. TR
    Timour Radko

    Naval Postgraduate School, United States

    6 publications · 359 citations

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Institutions

223

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    12 h-index

    12 publications

    816 citations

  2. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

    New Brunswick, United States

    11 h-index

    11 publications

    420 citations

  3. Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

    Sangāreddi, India

    11 h-index

    11 publications

    230 citations

  4. University of California, Santa Cruz

    Santa Cruz, United States

    10 h-index

    10 publications

    625 citations

  5. Université Libre de Bruxelles

    Brussels, Belgium

    10 h-index

    10 publications

    542 citations

  6. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    9 h-index

    9 publications

    791 citations

  7. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    9 h-index

    9 publications

    328 citations

  8. Bangalore University

    Bengaluru, India

    9 h-index

    9 publications

    320 citations

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  1. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    48 publications · 2.6K citations

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  2. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

    28 publications · 894 citations

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  3. Physics of Fluids

    21 publications · 650 citations

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  4. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 8 publications · 349 citations

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  5. Journal of Physical Oceanography

    8 publications · 212 citations

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