Observations on thermoconvection for bilayers in containers of arbitrary shape

✍ Scribed by R. Narayanan

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 586 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-0833
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00036718

✦ Synopsis

We have employed ideas on self-adjoint operators to formulate the problem on thermoconvection in bilayers and in bounded geometries. In particular, use of such operators helps in obtaining the behavior of the critical Rayleigh number with respect to domain size, fluid properties and boundary conditions. Two important cases are considered. These are (a) the case of a fluid bounded above by a solid of finite conductivity and height and (b) the case of two immiscible fluids which are vertically stacked against each other.