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The disturbance of mechanical equilibrium of stagnant electrolyte containing three types of ions and the onset of natural convection in the electrochemical cell with plane horizontal electrodes under the non-steady-state conditions are studied theoretically. The Navier-Stokes equations in the Boussinesq approximation, the equations of ionic transfer of electrolyte components, which is caused by diffusion, convection, and migration, and the electroneutrality condition were used as the mathematical model of the process. Using the numerical simulation, the regularities of the onset of natural convection of electrolyte solution with the formation of convective cells are studied. The effect of transport properties of solution on the critical time of onset of convection and on the time before the current starts to increase due to the onset of natural convection, on the sizes and shape of convective cells and the mass-transfer rate is investigated by the example of cathodic deposition of metal at the limiting current.
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Original Russian Text © V.M. Volgin, A.V. Zhukov, G.N. Zhukova, A.D. Davydov, 2009, published in Elektrokhimiya, 2009, Vol. 45, No. 9, pp. 1079–1090.
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Volgin, V.M., Zhukov, A.V., Zhukova, G.N. et al. Onset of natural convection in the electrochemical cell with horizontal electrodes under non-steady-state conditions: A numerical study. Russ J Electrochem 45, 1005–1016 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1023193509090055
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