Mechanics of a non-uniformly heated fluid in two-layer system under longitudinal vibration in weightlessness: the porosity and permeability effects

Authors

  • Екатерина Андреевна Колчанова (Ekaterina A. Kolchanova) Perm State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17072/1994-3598-2020-2-38-47

Keywords:

uniform porous zone, two-layer system, thermal vibrational convection, microgravity, longitudinal vibra-tion, permeability and porosity effects, Beavers-Joseph condition

Abstract

The effect of the porosity and permeability variations on the onset of average convection in a single-component fluid within an non-uniformly heated horizontal layer partially filled with a porous zone under zero gravity conditions is studied. The system of the fluid and porous layers oscillates as a whole with high frequency and small amplitude in the longitudinal direction. Permeability is uniform within the porous zone and related to porosity by the Carman–Kozeny formula. The method of constructing a fundamental system of solutions as well as the orthogonalization of vectors for partial solutions are applied to simulate a linear stability problem with respect to the fluid quasi-equilibrium state in the layers numerically. The instability threshold relative to the short-wave and long-wave convective rolls is found. An abrupt change in the type of instability from the short-wave to long-wave ones occurs with the growth of the porosity from 0.3 to 0.8. A similar variation also presents in the case of thermal gravitational convection in layered fluid systems with porous zones under Earth conditions. Convection in weightlessness distinguishes from that in the gravitational field by a non-monotonic behavior of the instability threshold with increasing porosity at different fixed frequencies of vibration. The onset of convection delays at low frequencies and, on the contrary, speeds up at high enough frequencies, if the porosity belongs to the interval from 0.3 to 0.8. In addition, one studies the effect of two types of boundary conditions for tangential velocities near the interface between the layers on the instability threshold in the system with a low permeable porous zone.

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2020-07-13

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Колчанова (Ekaterina A. Kolchanova) Е. А. (2020). Mechanics of a non-uniformly heated fluid in two-layer system under longitudinal vibration in weightlessness: the porosity and permeability effects. Bulletin of Perm University. Physics, (2). https://doi.org/10.17072/1994-3598-2020-2-38-47

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