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Wei Wang

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Xin-Lei Guan

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Li-Jun Wang

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Chu-Wen Guo

ANALYSIS AND CORRELATION OF FLUID MOTIONS IN NATURAL THERMAL CONVECTION IN A CYLINDRICAL VESSEL

ABSTRACT
A natural thermal convection system is set up in a cylindrical vessel with aspect ratio of 2 having a temperature gradient in the vertical direction, and the fluid motions due to convection are investigated. The 2-D velocity field along the plane passing through the diameter of the vessel is obtained using particle image velocimetry. The results indicate that the convection is in the transition stage and the mean velocity fields show two pairs of counter-rotating circulations. The mean motions are predominant in the vertical direction under the influence of the temperature gradient, while the fluctuations in the x- and y-directions have the same order of magnitude. Probability density functions of fluctuation velocities at seven characteristic points show different behaviors. The space-time correlations in the regions where the circulations interact exhibit the iso-correlation-lines predicted by the elliptical approximation hypothesis. The space-time correlations of the streamwise and vertical fluctuations show distinct movements which imply the existence of anisotropy around the interaction region.
KEYWORDS
natural convection, large-scale circulation, space-time correlation, elliptical approximation
PAPER SUBMITTED: 2018-06-05
PAPER REVISED: 2018-09-10
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2018-11-10
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2019-04-14
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI180605121W
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THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR 2019, VOLUME 23, ISSUE Supplement 3, PAGES [S859 - S865]
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