Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-19T00:34:31.407Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Laser speckle measurements of transient Bénard convection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

P. G. Simpkins  and
T. D. Dudderar
P. G. Simpkins
Affiliation:
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
T. D. Dudderar
Affiliation:
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Quantitative velocity measurements of unsteady convection in a Bénard cell suddenly cooled from above to a supercritical Rayleigh number are reported. The results are obtained by a novel application of laser speckle photography adapted for the study of fluid dynamics. This technique allows two-dimensional full-field velocity information to be obtained solely from a selected plane within the volume of moving liquid at any given instant in time. The convective rolls are found to be regular and oriented parallel to the short side of the cell. The number of rolls within the cell is approximately twice as great as the number reported for steady conditions. The maximum vertical velocity distribution is observed to be a sinusoidal function of the horizontal distance with a detectable third-harmonic component.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 89 , Issue 4 , 27 December 1978 , pp. 665 - 671
Copyright
© 1978 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Barker, D. B. & Fourney, M. E. 1977 J. Appl. Optics Lett. 1, 135.
Bergé, P. 1975 Fluctuations, Instabilities and Phase Transitions (ed. T. Riste), p. 323. Plenum.
Dainty, J. C. 1975 Laser Speckle and Related Phenomena. Springer.
Davis, S. H. 1967 J. Fluid Mech. 30, 465.
Dubois, M. & Bergé, P. 1978 J. Fluid Mech. 85, 641.
Dudderar, T. D. & Simpkins, P. G. 1977 Nature 270, 45.
Elder, J. W. 1965 J. Fluid Mech. 23, 77.
Foster, T. D. 1965 Phys. Fluids 8, 1770.
Grousson, R. & Mallick, S. 1977 Appl. Optics 16, 2334.
Koschmieder, E. L. 1966 Beitr. Phys. Atmos. 39, 1.
Koschmieder, E. L. 1969 J. Fluid Mech. 35, 527.
Koschmieder, E. L. 1974 Adv. in Chem. Phys. 26, 177.
Krishnamurti, R. 1968 J. Fluid Mech. 33, 457.
Palm, E. 1975 Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech. 7, 39.
Perry, J. H. & Chilton, C. H. 1973 Chemical Engineers Handbook, chap. 3. McGraw-Hill.
Stork, K. & MÜLLER, U. 1972 J. Fluid Mech. 54, 599.