Unsteady two-dimensional convection in a bottom heated supercritical fluid

Isabelle Raspo; Bernard Zappoli; Patrick Bontoux

doi:10.1016/j.crme.2004.02.003

Microgravity and Transfer/Critical fluids

Unsteady two-dimensional convection in a bottom heated supercritical fluid

Isabelle Raspo ¹ ; Bernard Zappoli ²; Patrick Bontoux ¹

¹ Modélisation et simulation numérique en mécanique (MSNM), F.R.E. 2405 CNRS I.M.T., La Jetée, technopôle de Château Gombert, 38, rue Frédéric Joliot Curie, 13451 Marseille cedex 20, France
² Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), établissement de Toulouse, 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse cedex, France

Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Microgravity / La micropesanteur, Volume 332 (2004) no. 5-6, pp. 353-360.

Abstract
Résumé

We consider a closed Rayleigh–Bénard cell containing a fluid near its gas–liquid critical point (CP). Due to the divergence of several physical properties near the CP, large Rayleigh numbers can be obtained even for small temperature differences. In the convective regime, the heat flow which is obtained on long time scales exhibits some characteristics of that observed in turbulent convection in normally compressible fluids: it is composed of plumes in thermal boundary layers, jets on lateral walls and a large-scale flow. Our results show that, as it is the case in turbulent convection, this large-scale flow can suddenly change its orientation.

On considère un fluide proche de son point critique liquide–gaz (PC) dans une cellule de Rayleigh–Bénard fermée. Du fait de la divergence de plusieurs propriétés physiques au voisinage du PC, des nombres de Rayleigh importants peuvent être obtenus pour de faibles différences de températures. Dans le régime convectif, le champ thermique obtenu sur les longues échelles de temps présente certaines caractéristiques de celui observé en convection turbulente dans un fluide normalement compressible : il est composé de panaches issus des couches limites thermiques, de jets le long des parois latérales et d'un écoulement à grande échelle. Nos résultats montrent que, comme en convection turbulente, cet écoulement peut soudain changer d'orientation.

Published online: 2004-04-21

DOI: 10.1016/j.crme.2004.02.003

Keywords: Fluid mechanics, Supercritical fluid, Convective instability, Reversal of large-scale flow
Mots-clés : Mécanique des fluides, Fluide supercritique, Instabilité convective, Changement d'orientation de l'écoulement à grande échelle

Author's affiliations:

Isabelle Raspo ¹; Bernard Zappoli ²; Patrick Bontoux ¹

¹ Modélisation et simulation numérique en mécanique (MSNM), F.R.E. 2405 CNRS I.M.T., La Jetée, technopôle de Château Gombert, 38, rue Frédéric Joliot Curie, 13451 Marseille cedex 20, France
² Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), établissement de Toulouse, 18, avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse cedex, France

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Isabelle Raspo; Bernard Zappoli; Patrick Bontoux. Unsteady two-dimensional convection in a bottom heated supercritical fluid. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Microgravity / La micropesanteur, Volume 332 (2004) no. 5-6, pp. 353-360. doi : 10.1016/j.crme.2004.02.003. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mecanique/articles/10.1016/j.crme.2004.02.003/

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