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Natural convection in a shallow cavity with differentially heated end walls. Part 3. Experimental results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Jorg Imberger
Jorg Imberger
Affiliation:
Departments of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering, University of Western Australia, Nedlands
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Abstract

The steady motion of water in an enclosed rectangular cavity with differentially heated vertical end walls was studied experimentally, and the results are compared with the findings of parts 1 and 2. The depth-to-length ratios of the cavities were 102 and 1·9 × 102, and the Rayleigh number was allowed to vary sufficiently to enable a study to be made of the transition from a flow driven by the vertical wall boundary layers to one sustained by a longitudinal temperature gradient in the central sections of the cavity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , 28 August 1974 , pp. 247 - 260
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© 1974 Cambridge University Press

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