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Thermo-electro-hydrodynamic convection under microgravity: a review

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Recent studies on thermo-electro-hydrodynamic (TEHD) convection are reviewed with focus on investigations motivated by the analogy with natural convection. TEHD convection originates in the action of the dielectrophoretic force generated by an alternating electric voltage applied to a dielectric fluid with a temperature gradient. This electrohydrodynamic force is analogous to Archimedean thermal buoyancy and can be regarded as a thermal buoyancy force in electric effective gravity. The review is concerned with TEHD convection in plane, cylindrical, and spherical capacitors under microgravity conditions, where the electric gravity can induce convection without any complexities arising from geometry or the buoyancy force due to the Earth’s gravity. We will highlight the convection in spherical geometry, comparing developed theories and numerical simulations with the GEOFLOW experiments performed on board the International Space Station (ISS).
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hal-01396101 , version 1 (13-11-2016)

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Innocent Mutabazi, Harunori Yoshikawa, Mireille Tadie Fogaing, Vadim Travnikov, Olivier Crumeyrolle, et al.. Thermo-electro-hydrodynamic convection under microgravity: a review. Fluid Dynamics Research, 2016, 48, pp.061413. ⟨10.1088/0169-5983/48/6/061413⟩. ⟨hal-01396101⟩
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