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Thermocapillary- and buoyancy-driven convection in open cavities with differentially heated endwalls is investigated by numerical solutions of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the energy equation. We studied the thermocapillary and buoyancy convection in the cavities, filled with low-Prandtl-number fluids, with two aspect-ratiosA=1 and 4, Grashof number up to 105 and Reynolds number ⋎Re⋎≤104. Our results show that thermocapillary can have a quite significant effect on the stability of a primarily buoyancy-driven flow, as well as on the flow structures and dynamic behavior for both additive effect (i.e., positiveRe) and opposing effect (i.e., negativeRe).
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Xiyun, L., Lixian, Z. Numerical study of buoyancy- and thermocapillary-driven flows in a cavity. Acta Mech Sinica 14, 130–138 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02487747
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02487747