Natural convection in eccentric spherical annuli

DOI10.1016/J.EUROMECHFLU.2017.02.007MaRDI QIDQ1672232zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. D. Gallegos, Carlos Málaga

Publication date 7 September 2018

Published in European Journal of Mechanics. B. Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06291

zbMATH Keywords

3d natural convectionconvective instabilitieseccentric spherical shells

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free convection (76R10)

Abstract: A fluid between two spheres, concentric or not, at different temperatures will flow in the presence of a constant gravitational force. Although there is no possible hydrostatic state, energy transport is dominated by diffusion if temperature difference between the spheres is small enough. In this conductive regime the average Nusselt number remains approximately constant for all Rayleigh numbers below some critical value. Above the critical Rayleigh number, plumes appear and thermal convection takes place. We study this phenomenon, in particular the case where the inner sphere is displaced from the centre, using a two-component thermal lattice Boltzmann method to characterize the convective instability, the evolution of the flow patterns and the dependence of the Nusselt number on the Rayleigh number beyond the transition.

Recommendations

• Natural convection heat transfer between inner sphere and outer vertically eccentric cylinder
• Transient natural convection heat transfer between concentric and vertically eccentric spheres
• Free convection in vertical eccentric annuli with a uniformly heated boundary
• Numerical computation of fluid convection with air enclosed between the annuli of eccentric heated horizontal rotating cylinders
• Transient natural convection heat transfer of fluids with variable viscosity between concentric and vertically eccentric spheres

Cites work

• A lattice Boltzmann method for a binary miscible fluid mixture and its application to a heat transfer problem
• Conduction in eccentric spherical annuli
• Steady and oscillatory bimodal convection
• Thermal blob convection in spherical shells
• Thermal levitation
• Transient natural convection heat transfer between concentric and vertically eccentric spheres
• Transient natural convection heat transfer between concentric spheres

Cited in

(8)

• Natural convection in narrow-gap, spherical annuli
• Natural convection heat transfer in horizontal eccentric elliptic annuli containing saturated porous media
• Natural convection in a shallow cylindrical annuli
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 437440 (Why is no real title available?)
• Low Rayleigh number convection in horizontal, eccentric annuli
• Natural convection flow in a horizontal annulus with an oscillating inner cylinder using Lagrangian-Eulerian kinematics
• Free convection in vertical eccentric annuli with a uniformly heated boundary
• Natural convection in a concentric annulus with a porous sleeve

This page was built for publication: Natural convection in eccentric spherical annuli

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1672232)