Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
663486 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 2006 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

The transition from steady to oscillatory flow for a very low Prandtl number fluid (Pr = 0.008) is computed for rectangular enclosures with aspect ratios (length/height) of 0.25, 0.4, 1.0, and 2.0 and are found to occur at Rayleigh numbers of 250,000, 130,000, 83,500, and 30,000 respectively. The structures of the oscillations are graphically depicted and are manifested in corner cells which dissipate into centered cells and then into opposite corner cells. A secondary flow transition is detected for a geometry with an aspect ratio of 1.0 at Ra = 1.2Rac2.

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