Rayleigh-Benard convection in binary mixtures with separation ratios near zero

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作者
DominguezLerma, MA [1 ]
Ahlers, G [1 ]
Cannell, DS [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA,CTR NONLINEAR SCI,SANTA BARBARA,CA 93106
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PHYSICAL REVIEW E | 1995年 / 52卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevE.52.6159
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
We present an experimental study of convection in binary mixtures with separation ratios psi close to zero. Measurements of the Hopf frequency for psi < 0 were used to determine the relationship between psi and the mass concentration x with high precision. These results are consistent with but more precise than earlier measurements by conventional techniques. For psi > 0, we found that the pattern close to on-set consisted of squares. Our data give the threshold of convection r(c)-R(c)/R(c0) (R(c) is the critical Rayleigh number of the mixture and Reo that of the pure fluid) from measurements of the refractive-index power of the pattern as revealed by a very sensitive quantitative shadowgraph method. Over the range psi less than or similar to 0.011, corresponding to r(c) greater than or similar to 0.2, these results are in good agreement with linear stability analysis. The measured refractive-index power varies by six orders of magnitude as a function of r and for r R 0. 55 is in reasonable agreement with predictions based on the ten-mode Lorenz-like Galerkin truncation of Muller and Lucke [H. W. Muller and M. Lucke, Phys. Rev. A38, 2965 (1988)]. For smaller r, the model predicts a cancellation between contributions to the refractive index from concentration and temperature variations, which does not seem to occur in the physical system. Determinations of the wave numbers of the patterns near onset are consistent with the theoretically predicted small critical wave numbers at positive psi. As r approaches one, we find that q approaches the critical wave number q(c0)similar or equal to 3 of the pure fluid.
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页码:6159 / 6174
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