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On the reverse transition of a turbulent flow under the action of buoyancy forces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Alejandro Steiner
Alejandro Steiner
Affiliation:
Département de Mécanique, Université de Paris Present address: Department of Mechanics, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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Abstract

Experiments were conducted in an ascending laminar flow through a vertical pipe under combined free and forced convection at constant heat flux through the wall.

Mean velocity and temperature profiles were measured with a hot-wire probe. This velocity profile which is deformed by the buoyancy forces, enabled us to compute the reduced acceleration parameter. The profiles obtained showed that the value of the parameter at which reverse transition takes place is approximately the same as that found in isothermal boundary-layer flow. By measuring the autocorrelation function of the velocity after the reverse transition it was shown that the flow in the boundary layer becomes laminar as well as fluctuating and that it oscillates with a predominating period.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , 14 June 1971 , pp. 503 - 512
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© 1971 Cambridge University Press

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