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
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Stokes boundary layers
  • Thermal convection
  • Vibration

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • General Physics and Astronomy
  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes

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