Heat and Tracer Transport in the Subsurface Ocean of Icy Satellites

Explore a 56-minute lecture from MIT researcher Wanying Kang examining the complex dynamics of heat and tracer transport in icy satellite subsurface oceans, presented at IPAM's Rotating Turbulence Workshop. Delve into the analysis of boundary interactions between shelf ice and subsurface oceans on moons exhibiting periodic libration and non-synchronous rotation. Learn how librational motion creates boundary layer shear similar to Earth's wind-driven ocean processes, and understand the formation of critical layers where internal wave dissipation occurs. Examine how boundary shear may trigger turbulence, enhancing dissipation effects, and discover why incorporating dynamic ice-ocean interface modeling could be crucial for accurate global simulations of internal waves in icy satellites.