72th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 23, 2019 — November 26, 2019)

V0014: The Two Faces of Holmboe Instabilities

Authors

• Colleen Qiu, Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia
• Adam Yang, Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia
• Edmund Tedford, Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia
• Jason Olsthoorn, Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia
• Gregory Lawrence, Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2019.GFM.V0014

Have you ever wondered how freshwater from the river mixed with saltwater from the sea when you were standing by the coast? One way for the water to do that is through instabilities introduced by the shear between two fluid layers. This video presents basic principles, experiment footages, and simulation results of symmetric and asymmetric Holmboe instabilities.​