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PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS
Volume 7, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.083503
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [740479]
- NWO via the Zwaartekrachtprogramma MCEC
- ERC-Advanced Grant [19JC1412802]
- Shanghai Science and Technology Program
- Balzan Foundation [740479]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- NWO
- ERC [740479]
- Shanghai Science and Technology Program [19JC1412802]
- Balzan Foundation
- European Research Council (ERC) [740479] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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This study investigates the melting behavior of ice in vertical convection and reveals an abrupt transition in the melting rate as the heating temperature increases. The emergence of a reversed buoyant flow due to the density anomaly of water near the melting point is responsible for this transition.
How fast ice melts in turbulent flows is key to many natural and industrial processes, most notably the melting of ice in the polar regions. To get a better quantitative under-standing of the physical mechanics at play, as a model system we pick vertical convection, consisting of ice and fresh water, and examine the lateral melting behavior through numeri-cal simulations and theory. We find that the melting rate of ice as a function of an increasing heating temperature undergoes an abrupt transition from a slow-to a fast-melting state, contrary to the intuition of a gradual transition. The abrupt transition of the ice melting rate is due to the emergence of a reversed buoyant flow, due to the density anomaly of water near the melting point. A theoretical model based on energy conservation gives rise to a universal expression to relate the global heat fluxes and the ice melting rate which is consistent with our data. Besides their fundamental significance, our findings improve our understanding of how phase transitions couple to adjacent turbulent flow.
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