🌋 Hydrothermal Plume Rise: Buoyancy Flux and Ocean Stratification (2D)

Side view of the turbulent plume that rises from a field of hot vents on the sea floor until the stratified ocean stops it and it spreads sideways. Change the heat flux of the vent field, the stratification of the water, the entrainment coefficient and the seafloor depth to see the neutral height, the top of the rise and the plume width. The pure-plume solution, the one-quarter and minus three-quarter power scaling, the spreading layer and the mass budget are checked numerically, with four in-page numerical checks.

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install