Mass transport in propagating patterns of convection [electronic resource].
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- Los Alamos, N.M. : Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1988.
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- Pages: 47 : digital, PDF file
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary:
- Recent studies of propagating waves in an oscillatory convection of binary mixtures arise questions about transport properties of this flow. Optical visualization of a field of refraction index due to a shadowgraph technique gives information on the temperature and concentration fields. However, experimental observation of rolls propagating along the cell as travelling waves (TW) does not necessarily imply that mass is transferred hydrodynamically by the convective motion along the cell. One of the possibilities discussed, e.g., is that TW observed is only a phase propagation. The traditional examples of such situations come from the domain of linear, superposition-oriented physics. Acoustic waves transfer momentum and energy, but do not cause the mass to make excursions for their equilibrium point that are larger than the oscillation amplitude. In the case of nonlinear physics we were aware that small amplitude surface waves cause only small oscillatory motion round the equilibrium point, while larger amplitudes can cause the mass to start moving in the direction of the TW. This paper discussed the different possibilities of mass transfer by TW. 27 refs., 20 figs.
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- E 1.99:la-ur-88-3680
E 1.99: conf-8805120-5
conf-8805120-5
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01/01/1988.
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CNLS conference on advances in fluid turbulence, Los Alamos, NM, USA, 16 May 1988.
Moses, E.; Steinberg, V. - Funding Information:
- W-7405-ENG-36
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