2020, 41(2): 125-133.
doi: 10.21656/1000-0887.400091
Abstract:
The periodicity of convection under lateral local heating with Prandtl number Pr=0.027 2 was studied through numerical simulation of hydrodynamic equations. The results show that, convection develops in the order of steady-state convection, single-local-period convection, double-local-period convection and quasi-period convection with the increase of Grashof number Gr. Convection is steady for Gr<3.6×103. In the range of 3.6×103<Gr<6.78×104,convection has a single local period; in the range of 6.78×104<Gr<3.5×106, convection has double local periods; for Gr>3.5×106,convection has a quasi period. In the steady convection case, the position of the convection roll corresponding to the heating zone on the wall does not change with time. In the single-local-period convection case, the core of the convection roll corresponding to the upper heating zone on the wall moves periodically with time. In the double-local-period convection case, the cores of the convection rolls corresponding to the 2 heating zones on the wall move periodically with time. In the quasi-period convection case, there are small convection rolls with quasi-period variations in the upper and lower parts of the convection loop corresponding to the lower unheated zone on the wall. In the range of the convection periods mentioned above, the convection period decreases with the increase of Grashof number Gr for given Prandtl number Pr.