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The processes of freezing and thawing of a liquid in the presence of thermogravitational convection in a square cell with adiabatic vertical and isothermal horizontal walls are considered. The development of convective flow in time depends on the initial conditions, and therefore various scenarios of transition to a stationary solution are possible. The presence of phase transitions in the liquid makes it possible to freeze the transient structure of convective vortices. As a result, depending on the initial conditions, several stationary solutions that differ in both the structure of the convective motion and the magnitude of the heat transfer rate of the medium can exist.
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Institute of the Mechanics of Multiphase Systems. Russian Academy of Sciences, Tyumen'. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 67, Nos. 1–2, pp. 10–13, July–August, 1994.
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Zubkov, P.T., Fedorov, K.M. Thermogravitational convection in a square cell involving a phase transition. J Eng Phys Thermophys 67, 686–689 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00853314
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00853314