Oscillatory instability of natural convection of air in a laterally heated cubic box

Alexander Gelfgat*

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Abstract

Direct numerical simulation of the first instability threshold of buoyancy convection in a laterally heated cubic cavity is carried out on a series of finite volume grids whose size varies from 1003 to 2563. The horizontal and spanwise boundaries are assumed to be either perfectly thermally conducting or perfectly thermally insulating, which leads to consideration of four different configurations. It is shown that in the case of perfectly conducting horizontal boundaries the instability is similar to a corresponding two-dimensional case, while in the case of perfectly insulated boundaries it is qualitatively different and results in flow oscillations of high frequency and low amplitude. Multiple supercritical oscillatory states are observed in one of the cases considered.

Original languageEnglish
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event15th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC 2014 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 10 Aug 201415 Aug 2014

Conference

Conference15th International Heat Transfer Conference, IHTC 2014
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period10/08/1415/08/14

Funding

FundersFunder number
CP-CSARI-261600
Coordination and Support Actions
Seventh Framework Programme
European Commission

    Keywords

    • Computational methods
    • Convection
    • Numerical simulation and super-computing

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