Inherent thermal convection in a granular gas inside a box under a gravity field

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.801zbMATH Open1415.76667arXiv1707.04225OpenAlexW3103808320MaRDI QIDQ4647300FDOQ4647300

Authors: Francisco Vega Reyes, Andrea Puglisi, Andrea Gnoli, Giorgio Pontuale 

Publication date: 15 January 2019

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We theoretically prove the existence in granular fluids of a thermal convection that is inherent, in the sense that is always present and has no thermal gradient threshold (convection occurs for all finite values of the Rayleigh number). More specifically, we study a gas of inelastic smooth hard disks enclosed in a rectangular region under a constant gravity field. The vertical walls act as energy sinks (i.e., inelastic walls that are parallel to gravity) whereas the other two walls are perpendicular to gravity and act as energy sources. We show that this convection is due to the combined action of dissipative lateral walls and a volume force (in this case, gravitation). Hence, we call it extit{dissipative lateral walls convection}, DLWC. Our theory, that describes also the limit case of elastic collisions, shows that inelastic particle collisions enhance the DLWC. We perform our study via numerical solutions (volume element method) of the corresponding hydrodynamic equations, in an extended Boussinesq approximation. We show our theory describes the essentials of the results for similar (but more complex) laboratory experiments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.04225

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zbMATH Keywords

convectiongranular mediabuoyancy-driven instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Forced convection (76R05) Dusty-gas two-phase flows (76T15) Granular flows (76T25) Convection in hydrodynamic stability (76E06)

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• FiPy

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