简介:Dripping convective instabilities develop under a cold thermal boundary layer
when the local Rayleigh number exceeds a critical value Rac (Howard, 1966). Their
86 Interaction of two scales of thermal convection in visc简介:Dripping convective instabilities develop under a cold thermal boundary layer
when the local Rayleigh number exceeds a critical value Rac (Howard, 1966). Their
86 Interaction of two scales of thermal convection in viscous fluids
interaction with a shear flow is studied experimentally in a cavity heated from one
vertical wall and cooled from above. Rayleigh numbers range between 104 and 108, and
Prandtl numbers are greater than 1000. Within this parameter range, a hot horizontal
jet develops under the cold boundary. The instabilities dripping from the latter are
therefore sheared by the flow and remain trapped in the jet, following a helicoidal
path with axis parallel to the jet flow. For high jet velocities compared to the dripping
velocity, 2D steady rolls prevail, while for low jet velocities, a 3D structure is observed.
A phase diagram and scaling laws for the flow characteristics are determined.详细>