TY - JOUR
T1 - The Effect of a Salinity Gradient on the Instability of Natural Convection in a Vertical Fluid Layer
AU - Yanase, Shinichiro
AU - Kohno, Kiyoshi
PY - 1985/1/1
Y1 - 1985/1/1
N2 - The effect of a salinity gradient on the instability of natural convection in a vertical fluid layer between two parallel plates is investigated theoretically. Temperatures of the two plates are different by 2T0 and both a stable temperature gradient, β>0, and an unstable salinity gradient, β>0, are present in the vertical direction. The stability is investigated for various values of P and in the case of the Prandtl number Pr = 7 and the Schmidt number Sc = 700, which corresponds to weak salt water. It is found that the stationary mode dominates the onset of instability if both β and are moderate, otherwise the travelling mode governs it.
AB - The effect of a salinity gradient on the instability of natural convection in a vertical fluid layer between two parallel plates is investigated theoretically. Temperatures of the two plates are different by 2T0 and both a stable temperature gradient, β>0, and an unstable salinity gradient, β>0, are present in the vertical direction. The stability is investigated for various values of P and in the case of the Prandtl number Pr = 7 and the Schmidt number Sc = 700, which corresponds to weak salt water. It is found that the stationary mode dominates the onset of instability if both β and are moderate, otherwise the travelling mode governs it.
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U2 - 10.1143/JPSJ.54.3747
DO - 10.1143/JPSJ.54.3747
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0022134715
VL - 54
SP - 3747
EP - 3756
JO - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
JF - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
SN - 0031-9015
IS - 10
ER -