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Natural convection

About: Natural convection is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 29521 publications have been published within this topic receiving 608747 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, a simple empirical expression for the mean value of Nu over the cylinder for all Ra and all Pr is developed in terms of the model of Churchill and Usagi.

1,162 citations

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Henry Stommel1
01 May 1961-Tellus A
TL;DR: Free convection between two interconnected reservoirs, due to density differences maintained by heat and salt transfer to the reservoirs, is shown to occur sometimes in two different stable regimes, and may possibly be analogous to certain features of the oseanic circulation as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Free convection between two interconnected reservoirs, due to density differences maintained by heat and salt transfer to the reservoirs, is shown to occur sometimes in two different stable regimes, and may possibly be analogous to certain features of the oseanic circulation.

1,143 citations

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01 Mar 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, if the hydraulic permeability of crustal material is sufficiently high, convection driven advection of heat can be an equally or even much more efficient transfer mechanism, provided sufficiently strong driving forces are supplied by forced or free convection systems.
Abstract: (1) If the hydraulic permeability of crustal material is sufficiently high, convection driven advection of heat can be an equally or even much more efficient transfer mechanism, provided sufficiently strong driving forces are supplied by forced or free convection systems. This is often the case in sedimentary basins. However, fluid driven heat advection can be important also in crystalline rocks and on a crustal scale (Etheridge et al., 1983, Torgersen, 1990, Clauser, 1992).

1,046 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the complex nature of the natural convection phenomena in enclosures is discussed and the boundary value problem is formulated, assuming that the motion is 2D and steady, the fluid is incompressible and frictional heating is negligible, and the difference between the hot wall and cold wall temperatures is small relative to the absolute temperatures of the cold wall.
Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the complex nature of the natural convection phenomena in enclosures It discusses the two basic configurations of natural convection— that is, a rectangular cavity and a horizontal circular cylinder In rectangular cavities, consideration is given to the two-dimensional convective motion generated by the buoyancy force on the fluid in a rectangle and to the associated heat transfer The two long sides are vertical boundaries held at different temperatures and the short sides can either be heat conducting or insulated Particular attention is given to the different flow regimes that can occur and the heat transfer across the fluid space between the two plane parallel vertical boundaries Although heat transfer by radiation may not be negligible it is independent of the other types of heat transfer and can be fairly accurately calculated separately To formulate the boundary value problem that describes this phenomena it is assumed that: (a) the motion is two-dimensional and steady, (b) the fluid is incompressible and frictional heating is negligible, and (c) the difference between the hot wall and cold wall temperatures is small relative to the absolute temperatures of the cold wall In horizontal circular cylinder, consideration is given to the large Rayleigh number flow with the Prandtl number large and the Grashof number of unit order of the magnitude

973 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a new method for obtaining approximate equations for natural convection flows is presented, which allows the specification of the conditions under which the traditional Boussinesq approximation applies to a given Newtonian liquid or gas.

940 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023491
20221,025
20211,025
2020976
20191,083
2018992