Application of quasi-hydrodynamic equations in the modeling of low-Prandtl thermal convection (Q1571277)

The authors present results of numerical simulation for buoyancy-driven and thermocapillary convection in rectangular cavities at low Prandtl numbers. In addition to the primary (steady) flow regimes, the authors compute secondary (unsteady) regimes. The results, which obtained by solving a quasi-hydrodynamics system of equations, are compared with numerical results based on Navier-Stokes equations.