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Convective instabilities in a closed vertical cylinder heated from below. Part 1. Monocomponent gases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

J. M. Olson  and
F. Rosenberger
J. M. Olson
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 Present address: Solar Energy Research Institute, Golden, CO 80401.
F. Rosenberger
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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Abstract

Kr, Xe and SiCI4 have been investigated for convective instabilities in closed vertical cylinders with conductive walls heated from below. Critical Rayleigh numbers NiRa for the onset of various convective modes (including the onset of marginally stable and periodic flow) have been determined with a high resolution differential temperature sensing method. Flow patterns were deduced from a multiple sensor arrangement. For the three lowest modes (i = 1, 2, 3) good quantitative agreement with linear stability theory is found. Stable oscillatory modes (periodic fluctuations of the mean flow) with a period of approximately 5 s are found for a relatively narrow range of NRa. The critical Rayleigh number NoscRa for the onset of oscillatory temperature fluctuations is 1348 ± 50 for an aspect ratio (height/radius) of 6.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 92 , Issue 4 , 27 June 1979 , pp. 609 - 629
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© 1979 Cambridge University Press

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