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Three-dimensional buoyancy-driven flows in cylindrical cavities with differentially heated endwalls. Part 1. Horizontal cylinders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

P. Bontoux
Affiliation:
Institut de Mécanique des Fluides, Université d'Aix - Marseille II, Marseille, France
C. Smutek
Affiliation:
Institut de Mécanique des Fluides, Université d'Aix - Marseille II, Marseille, France
B. Roux
Affiliation:
Institut de Mécanique des Fluides, Université d'Aix - Marseille II, Marseille, France
J. M. Lacroix
Affiliation:
I.M.S.P., Université de Nice, Nice, France

Abstract

Numerical solutions of the three-dimensional equations for buoyancy-driven flows in cylinders with differentially heated endwalls have been obtained by a finite-difference method. Special attention has been devoted to the complex three-dimensional flow structures arising in horizontal cylinders for configurations relevant for crystal growth by vapour transport. The characterization of the transition between the core-driven regime and the boundary-layer-driven regime is considered with the properties of the main flow and also the transverse flow.

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Research Article
Copyright
© 1986 Cambridge University Press

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