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Numerical simulation of two-dimensional convection: Role of boundary conditions

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The problem of two-dimensional, periodic in the horizontal coordinate, convection of an incompressible fluid heated from below between two horizontal planes is considered. The problem is solved in two formulations: with (stress-)free and hard (no-slip) boundary conditions on the horizontal planes. It is shown that at small supercriticalities the two-dimensional convection calculation leads to more correct results with hard than with free boundary conditions. It is established that the difference between the free and hard conditions is most strongly manifested in the pulsations of the vertical velocity component, whereas the dependence of the Nusselt number and the pulsations of the horizontal velocity component on the boundary conditions is more weakly expressed.

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Original Russian Text © I.B. Palymskii, 2007, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, 2007, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 50–60.

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Palymskii, I.B. Numerical simulation of two-dimensional convection: Role of boundary conditions. Fluid Dyn 42, 550–559 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462807040059

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