Stability diagram and effect of initial density stratification for a two-layer system in a supercritical fluid
Stability diagram and effect of initial density stratification for a two-layer system in a supercritical fluid
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DOI:
10.1063/1.2424497
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发表时间:
2006-12
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
K. Boutrouft;S. Amiroudine;A. Ambari
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作者:
K. Boutrouft;S. Amiroudine;A. Ambari
A numerical study of the stability in a two-layer system filled with a single pure supercritical fluid subjected to an initial temperature difference is performed. The very large compressibility and the very low heat diffusivity of near-critical fluids lead to a Rayleigh-Taylor-like gravitational instability of the heat diffusion layer. This instability is similar to the one of two miscible fluids where molecular species diffusion coefficient is replaced by the heat diffusion coefficient. Our numerical results are consistent with respect to the dispersion relation derived by Duff et al. [Phys. Fluids 5, 417 (1962)] for a system of two incompressible miscible fluids (argon-bromine mixture falling into helium or air). It has also been shown that when the thickness of the lower layer becomes smaller than the heat diffusion length based on the maximum growth rate, the system is stable [Phys. Fluids 17, 054102 (2005)]. A linear stability diagram has been established as a function of three parameters: the thick...