@unpublished{upm13429,
          volume = {13},
         address = {Alemania},
           pages = {13341--13341},
       booktitle = {Geophysical Research Abstracts of 8th EGU General Assembly},
           title = {Time Evolution of the Fractal Dimension in Turbulent Plumes},
            year = {2011},
          author = {Ana Maria Tarquis Alfonso and Pilar L{\'o}pez-Gonzalez-Nieto and Jos{\'e} Manuel Redondo},
       publisher = {Copernicus},
             url = {http://oa.upm.es/13429/},
        abstract = {Turbulent mixing is a very important issue in the study of geophysical phenomena because most ?uxes arising in geophysics ?uids are turbulent. We study turbulent mixing due to convection using a laboratory experimental model with two miscible ?uids of different density with an initial top heavy density distribution. The ?uids that form the initial unstable strati?cation are miscible and the turbulence will produce molecular mixing. The denser ?uid comes into the lighter ?uid layer and it generates several forced plumes which are gravitationally unstable. As the turbulent plumes develop, the denser ?uid comes into contact with the lighter ?uid layer and the mixing process grows. Their development is caused by the lateral interaction between these plumes at the complex fractal surface between the dense and light ?uids}
}