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XXI International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Warsaw, Poland, August 15-21, 2004

Mathematical Models of Microconvection for Isothermally Incompressible and Weakly Compresible Liquids

Vladislav V. Pukhnachov (1), Olga N. Goncharova (2)
1. Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics, SD RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
2. Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia


The term microconvection was originally introduced to characterize non- solenoidal flows driven by density (depending on temperature only) changes. These phenomena were analyzed for thermal buoyancy-driven convection (Pukhnachov, 1991) and for diffusive-induced flows (Perera and Sekerka, 1997). The effect on non-solenoidality is equally important for the description of non- stationary convection in microgravity conditions and in microscales. Recently this approach was extended up to convective motions of a weakly compressible liquid (Pukhnachov, 2002). On the basis of the microconvection model, there are studied a number of problems describing the convection in a vertical layer with the thermal fluxes oscillating in a phase and in an anti-phase, flows in a circular ring and in a prolate rectangular, mixed thermocapillary/gravitational convection in a semicircle with a free flat boundary.



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