Multiple equilibrium laboratory devices

Devices{* } will be demonstrated and videotapes played of a number of laboratory studies that exhibit multiple equilibrium. All devices have two competing effects driving the flow. In two of them, temperature and salinity oppose each other. In another, air and water compete. In a fourth, wave propagation is opposed by inertia. Connection with hypothesized ocean behavior will be made. {* } Whitehead, J. A. 2000 Stratified Convection with Multiple States. Ocean Modelling, 2, 109-121. Whitehead, J. A. W. Gregory Lawson and John Salzig. 2001 Multistate flow devices for geophysical fluid dynamics and climate. American Journal of Physics, 69 546-553. Whitehead, J. A. and P. G. Baines. 2000. Hydraulic Jump Location as a Multiple Equilibrium feature. 2000 Ocean Sciences Meeting, American Geophysical Union, San Antonio Texas, January 25, 2000. Abstract: EOS 80 #46 (Supplement), OS125. Whitehead, J. A. , M. L. E. Timmermans, W. Gregory Lawson, S. N. Bulgakov, A. M. Zatarian, J. F. A. Medina, and John Salzig, Laboratory studies of thermally and/or Salinity-driven flows with partial mixing: Part 1 Stommel transitions and multiple flow states. In preparation