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Annual Reviews of Heat Transfer

ISSN 1049-0787

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Year 1997

328 pages

Volume price - $141.00

FLOW INSTABILITIES IN CONFINED RAYLEIGH-BENARD CONVECTION

Devadatta Mukutmoni
CLCD, General Motors Corporation, 4441 S. Saginaw Street Hint, MI 48507

Kwang-tzu Yang
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556

ABSTRACT

In this article, Rayleigh-Bénard convection, and in particular numerical studies on its instabilities and transitions are discussed and reviewed. The discussion is limited to confined enclosures, that is, enclosures with side walls. The study discusses Rayleigh-Bénard convection for a wide variety of parameters, such as for large and small aspect ratio enclosures and high and low Prandtl number fluids. Relevant experimental studies are described as well.