Self-similar analysis of a viscous heated Oberbeck-Boussinesq flow system
- 1 February 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Fluid Dynamics Research
- Vol. 52 (1), 015515
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1873-7005/ab720c
Abstract
One of the simplest model to couple viscous flow to heat conduction is the Oberbeck-Boussinesq (OB) system which were also investigated by E N Lorenz. In our former studies-2015 Chaos Solitons Fractals 78 249, 2017 Chaos Solitons Fractals 103 336-we derived analytic solutions for the velocity, pressure and temperature fields. Additionally, we gave a possible explanation of the Rayleigh-Benard convection cells with the help of the self-similar Ansatz. Now we generalize the OB hydrodynamical system, including a viscous source term in the heat conduction equation. Our analysis show that the viscous heating term smooths out any kind of Benard oscillations and stabilizes the flow. All the velocity, pressure and temperature distributions are free of oscillations. These results may attract interest in micro or nanofluidics.Keywords
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