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Characterization of Thermal Transport in One-dimensional Solid Materials
Published on: January 26, 2014
Large-scale thermal convection in a horizontal porous layer
Denis S Goldobin1, Elizaveta V Shklyaeva
1Department of Theoretical Physics, Perm State University, 15 Bukireva Street, 614990, Perm, Russia.
Abstract:
In a range of physical systems, the first instability in Rayleigh-Bérnard convection between nearly thermally insulating horizontal plates is large scale. This holds for thermal convection of fluids saturating porous media. Large-scale thermal convection in a horizontal layer is governed by remarkably similar equations both in the presence of a porous matrix and without it, with only one additional term for the latter case, which, however, vanishes under certain conditions (e.g., two-dimensional flows or infinite Prandtl number). We provide a rigorous derivation of long-wavelength equations for a porous layer with inhomogeneous heating and possible pumping.
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