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The birth, life and death of convective plumes generated by a green laser in an isothermal fluid (1010.2967v1)
Published 14 Oct 2010 in physics.flu-dyn
Abstract: The aim is to laboratory simulation of convective plumes in the lower mantle, generated by a hot spot on the Earth's core. In the fluid dynamics video, presented results of experimental modeling of the plume from the hot point generated by the laser. Demonstrated that in a fluid with a high Prandtl number, point heating can generate complex spiral plumes. This experimental result allows us to question the classical notion of a mantle plume, as the column of heat.
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