Arrested cubic buoyancy profile

ID: arrested-cubic-buoyancy-profile

An upward volume flux and a downward turbulent buoyancy transport balance in a steady reactor. Matching below gives . Integrating yields the cubic profile above the front. If downward source buoyancy flux is , then . The corresponding eddy diffusivity is . All these prefactors use the same area and mixing-length normalization; an actual cross-sectional area replaces the denominator in by .

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