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Double diffusive convection in a vertical rectangular cavity

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In the present work, we study the onset of double diffusive convection in vertical enclosures with equal and opposing buoyancy forces due to horizontal thermal and concentration gradients ~in the case GrS /GrT521, where GrS and GrT are, respectively, the solutal and thermal Grashof numbers!. We demonstrate that the equilibrium solution is linearly stable until the parameter RaTuLe21u reaches a critical value, which depends on the aspect ratio of the cell, A. For the square cavity we find a critical value of RacuLe21u517 174 while previous numerical results give a value close to 6000. When A increases, the stability parameter decreases regularly to reach the value 6509, and the wave number reaches a value kc52.53, for A!`. These theoretical results are in good agreement with our direct simulation. We numerically verify that the onset of double diffusive convection corresponds to a transcritical bifurcation point. The subcritical solutions are strong attractors, which explains that authors who have worked previously on this problem were not able to preserve the equilibrium solution beyond a particular value of the thermal Rayleigh number, Rao1. This value has been confused with the critical Rayleigh number, while it corresponds in fact to the location of the turning point.
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hal-01886748 , version 1 (03-10-2018)

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Kassem Ghorayeb, Abdelkader Mojtabi. Double diffusive convection in a vertical rectangular cavity. Physics of Fluids, 1997, 9 (8), pp.2339-2348. ⟨10.1063/1.869354⟩. ⟨hal-01886748⟩
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