Thermo-oscillatory convection

Yuehua Jiang, Balkrishna N. Jahagirdar, R. Lee Reinhardt, Robert E. Schwartz, C. Dirk Keene, Xilma R. Ortiz-Gonzalez, Morayma Reyes, Todd Lenvik, Troy Lund, Mark Blackstad, Jingbo Du, Sara Aldrich, Aaron Lisberg, Walter C. Low, David A. Lergaespada, Catherine M. Verfaillie

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Abstract

Average thermal convection of an incompressible fluid performing high-frequency oscillations in a straight channel at rest is considered. It is shown that the Stokes layers play an important role in the excitation of average flows, in addition to the classical thermovibrational mechanism. Skin-layer flow generation is identified as a mechanism additional to the thermovibrational mechanism whose contribution is determined by the relative oscillation amplitude: it can have both a destabilizing and a stabilizing effect, depending on the amplitude.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)536-544
Number of pages9
JournalFluid Dynamics
Volume37
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The work was partially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 00-01-416). The author also wishes to thank the administration of the Ecole Centrale de Paris (the paper was written when the author was at ECP).

Keywords

  • Stokes boundary layers
  • Thermal convection
  • Vibration

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