Thermal stress vs. thermal transpiration: A competition in thermally driven cavity flows

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 112001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Mohammadzadeh ◽  
Anirudh Singh Rana ◽  
Henning Struchtrup

An analysis is given of the structure, at high Rayleigh numbers, of thermally driven cavity flows in fluid-saturated porous media. Particular emphasis is placed on the description of the diffusive layers near the horizontal surfaces. Solutions consistent with the core behaviour determined in part I of this series are obtained. These solutions, which are new, indicate that the horizontal boundary layers have a double structure in which the outer layer has a thickness O ( R -¼ ), where R is the Rayleigh number. Corner interactions between the horizontal and the vertical boundary layers are also discussed, and the present theory provides a first-order description of the entire flow field.


Cavity flows driven by an applied horizontal temperature gradient are considered in the high Rayleigh number limit for a fluid-saturated porous medium. The analysis is concerned with the behaviour of the vertical boundary layer equations near the corners of the cavity. Implications for the structure of the core flow are discussed. The present results, which are new, compare well with a recent numerical solution. Although the results are consistent with the standard hypothesis that the vertical boundary layers empty into the core, they are not in agreement with the corner behaviour previously suggested in the literature. The analysis of the vertical boundary layer structure is also applicable to cavity flows in electrically conducting fluids in the limit when magnetic drag is the dominant force.


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