Unsteady natural convection of air in a tall axisymmetric, nonisothermal annulus

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 625-648

  Reeve, Hayden M ^a   Mescher, Ann M ^a   Emery, Ashley F ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYSTERESIS; OSCILLATIONS; UNSTEADY FLOW;

ANNULAR CAVITY; CARTESIAN CASE; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; REVERSE TRANSITIONS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 2342454515     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780490424262     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. C. M. Vest and V. Arpaci, Stability of Natural Convection in a Vertical Slot, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 36, pp. 1-15, 1969.
2. P. M. Gresho and S. B. Sutton, Application of the FIDAP Code to the 8:1 Thermal Cavity Problem, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids., vol. 40, pp. 1083-1092, 2002.
3. M. A. Christon, P. M. Gresho, and S. B. Sutton, Computational Predictability of Time-Dependent Natural Convection Flows in Enclosures (Including a Benchmark Solution), Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids., vol. 40, pp. 953-980, 2002.
4. I. G. Choi and S. A. Korpela, Stability of the Conduction Regime of Natural Convection in a Tall Vertical Annulus, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 99, no. 4, pp. 725-738, 1980.
5. G. B. McFadden, S. R. Croiell, R. F. Boisvert, and M. E. Glicksman, Asymmetric Instabilities in Buoyancy-Driven Flow in a Tall Vertical Annulus, Phys. Fluids, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 1359-1361, 1984.
6. P. D. Weidman and G. Mehrdadtehranfar, Instability of Natural-Convection in a Tall Vertical Annulus, Phys. Fluids, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 776-787, 1985.
7. P. Le Quéré and J. Pécheux, Numerical Simulations of Multiple Flow Transitions in Axisymmetric Annulus Convection, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 206, pp. 517-544, 1989.
8. J. Pécheux, P. Le Quéré, and F. Abcha, Curvature Effects on Axisymmetric Instability of Conduction Regime in a Tall Air-Filled Annulus, Phys. Fluids, vol. 6, no. 10, pp. 3247-3255, 1994.
9. H. M. Reeve, A. M. Mescher, and A. F. Emery, Investigation of Polymer Optical Fiber Drawing Force and Heat Transfer, Proc. 2003 ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conf., Las Vegas, NV, HT2003-47445, 2003.
10. H. M. Reeve and A. M. Mescher, Effect of Unsteady Natural Convection on the Diameter of Drawn Polymer Optical Fiber, Opt. Express, vol. 11, pp. 1770-1779, 2003. www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-11-15-1770.
11. D. D. Gray and A. Giorgini, The Validity of the Boussinesq Approximation for Liquids and Gases. Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, vol. 19, pp. 545-551, 1975.
12. Fluent, Inc., FIDAP Users Manual. Fluent, Lebanon, NH, 1999.
13. J. E. Drummond, A. J. Yovichen, and J. P. McKee, The Effect of Upwind Formulations on Secondary Flows in a Thermally Driven Cavity, Proc. ASME-JSME Thermal Eng. Joint Conf., vol. 1, pp. 147154, 1991.
14. P. J. Roache, Quantification of Uncertainty in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Annu. Rev. Fluid. Mech., vol. 29, pp. 123-160, 1997.
15. E. N. Lorenz, Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow, J. Atmos. Sci., vol. 20, pp. 130-141, 1963.