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The problem of the natural convection of water near the density inversion point is solved numerically for a cubic cavity with isothermal horizontal walls and thermally insulated vertical walls. For different Grashof numbers, six steady-state flows are obtained and the ranges of existence of these flows are found.
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Zubkov, P.T., Kalabin, E.V. & Yakovlev, A.V. Investigation of Natural Convection in a Cubic Cavity near 4°C. Fluid Dynamics 37, 847–853 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022393226635
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