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Within a statically stable fluid stratified by gradients of two or more properties with different molecular diffusivities (i.e. heat-salt, salt-sugar, etc.) turbulence and convective transports may take place without energy supply from the outside. In such a system a number of surprising phenomena may be observed depending on the relative gradients of the diffusing agents
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Foldvik, A., Rudels, B. (1996). Double-Diffusive Experiments. In: Grue, J., Gjevik, B., Weber, J.E. (eds) Waves and Nonlinear Processes in Hydrodynamics. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0253-4_19
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