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A numerical model of the hydrodynamics of the thermal bar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Duncan E. Farrow
Duncan E. Farrow
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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Abstract

The thermal bar phenomenon is modelled numerically by the natural convection of a fluid contained in a two-dimensional triangular domain. The non-rotating case considered here is appropriate to laboratory models of the thermal bar. Three sets of results are presented reflecting varying degrees of nonlinearity. The results are discussed in relation to available theoretical and experimental results.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 303 , 25 November 1995 , pp. 279 - 295
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© 1995 Cambridge University Press

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