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Ice Scallops: A Laboratory Investigation of the Ice-Water Interface.


ABSTRACT: Ice scallops are a small-scale (5-20cm) quasi-periodic ripple pattern that occurs at the ice-water interface. Previous work has suggested that scallops form due to a self-reinforcing interaction between an evolving ice-surface geometry, an adjacent turbulent flow field, and the resulting differential melt rates that occur along the interface. In this study, we perform a series of laboratory experiments in a refrigerated flume to quantitatively investigate the mechanisms of scallop formation and evolution in high resolution. Using particle-image velocimetry, we probe an evolving ice-water boundary layer at sub-millimeter scales and 15Hz frequency. Our data reveals three distinct regimes of ice-water interface evolution: A transition from flat to scalloped ice; an equilibrium scallop geometry; and an adjusting scallop interface. We find that scalloped ice geometry produces a clear modification to the ice-water boundary layer, characterized by a time-mean recirculating eddy feature that forms in the scallop trough. Our primary finding is that scallops form due to a self reinforcing feedback between the ice-interface geometry and shear production of turbulent kinetic energy in the flow interior. The length of this shear production zone is therefore hypothesized to set the scallop wavelength.

SUBMITTER: Bushuk M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6677155 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Ice Scallops: A Laboratory Investigation of the Ice-Water Interface.

Bushuk Mitchell M   Holland David M DM   Stanton Timothy P TP   Stern Alon A   Gray Callum C  

Journal of fluid mechanics 20190628


Ice scallops are a small-scale (5-20cm) quasi-periodic ripple pattern that occurs at the ice-water interface. Previous work has suggested that scallops form due to a self-reinforcing interaction between an evolving ice-surface geometry, an adjacent turbulent flow field, and the resulting differential melt rates that occur along the interface. In this study, we perform a series of laboratory experiments in a refrigerated flume to quantitatively investigate the mechanisms of scallop formation and  ...[more]

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