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Experimental results are presented for convection in shallow layers of binary mixtures heated from below. We used both ethanol-water mixtures at room temperature[1,2] and 3He-4He mixtures at 2.2 K.[3,4] The primary difference between the two cases is the value of the Prandtl number σ, which is about 18 in the room-temperature system and about 0.6 in the cryogenic case. Both were studied in long, narrow containers in which convection rolls are expected to be parallel to the short sidewalls.
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Ahlers, G., Cannell, D.S., Heinrichs, R., Sullivan, T.S. (1988). Convection in Binary Mixtures. In: Wesfreid, J.E., Brand, H.R., Manneville, P., Albinet, G., Boccara, N. (eds) Propagation in Systems Far from Equilibrium. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 41. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73861-6_27
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