Abstract
In the last few years a lot of progress has been made to understand convection in binary fluid layers in an external temperature gradient from the experimental1 as well as from the theoretical2–4 side. All this work1–4 was concentrated on liquid mixtures. Recently one of us has shown5 for a layer in an external concentration gradient that the onset of convection is significantly influenced by the different physical properties of liquid and gas mixtures:
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the Lewis number L, i. e. the ratio of mass diffusivity D and thermal diffusivity κ, in liquid mixtures being of the order 10-2, is of order 1 in gaseous mixtures and
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the Dufour coupling of the mass diffusion current into the temperature field equation, is in gases about 104 times larger than in liquid mixtures and can no longer be ignored.
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Hort, W., Linz, S.J., Lücke, M. (1990). Onset of Soret and Dufour Driven Convection in Binary Fluid Mixtures. In: Busse, F.H., Kramer, L. (eds) Nonlinear Evolution of Spatio-Temporal Structures in Dissipative Continuous Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 225. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5793-3_14
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