Physics of Convection in a Porous Slab:  Lateral Heat       Extraction from Under a Thermal Blanket and the Formation ofHot Plumes
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This is a proposal to perform a laboratory study of                     hydrothermal convection in the oceanic crust.  Two separate                     experiments are proposed.  Experiment (1) is a follow up on an                  experiment undertaken with NSF support in which a large tank,                   filled with glass beads to simulate a porous medium, was                        maintained at a differential temperature and a convection pattern               was allowed to develop. In the proposed experiment (1) the                      experimental set up is essentially the same except that the upper               boundary is modified so that part of it allows a greater fraction               of the thermally convected heat to escape. This experimental set                up is to simulate the effects of a highly permeable rock outcrop                surrounded by a thick blanket of impermeable sediment on the                    pattern of convective heat transfer through the ocean floor. In                 experiment (2) a new apparatus is developed that will enable the                visualization of high Rayleigh number convection in a                           fractured/porous medium.  These types of studies are important to               the understanding of heat transfer through the seafloor.  The                   program considers experiment (2) to be of greater priority than                 (1) and that has been communicated to the PI.
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