We report experimental and numerical studies of combined natural and magnetic convection of a paramagnetic fluid inside a cubical enclosure heated from below and cooled from above and subjected to a magnetic field gradient. Values of the magnetic field gradient are in the range 9 |grad|b 0 | 2 | 900 T 2 /m for imposed magnetic field strengths in the center of the superconducting magnet bore of 1 |b 0 | max 10 T. Very good agreement between experiments and simulation is obtained in predicting the integral heat transfer over the entire range of working parameters (i.e., thermal Rayleigh number 1. Natural convection for heated-from-below configurations serves as a paradigm for a wide range of environmental, astrophysical, and industrial applications [1]. An interesting case of thermal convection is when the working fluid becomes magnetized in the presence of an external magnetic field. In such a case, in addition to gravity, the magnetization force is also important. By changing the strength and orientation of the imposed magnetic field, additional possibilities for affecting flow and heat transfer can be investigated. Possible areas of application where magnetic fields can be used to control flow and heat transfer include control of the growth rate and microstructure of materials [2] or protein crystals [3]. Starting from the pioneering work of Braithwaite et al. [4], the potential for magnetically controlled convection in paramagnetic, or even in ordinary (mainly diamagnetic), fluids (water) has been investigated both experimentally and numerically, e.g., [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. A major contribution of these studies was in providing the integral heat transfer (Nusselt number) behavior under strong magnetic field gradients and in reporting some basic flow visualisations. All these studies addressed steady laminar flow regimes. The goal of our present investigation is to extend the range of working parameters toward transitional or potentially turbulent flow regimes. This is achieved, first, by employing significantly larger magnetic field gradients generated by state-of-the-art superconducting helium-free magnets (up to 900 T 2 /m for magnetic field strength of 10 T, in contrast to up to 200 T 2 /m for magnetic field strength of 5 T in previous studies); second, by using fluids with lower Prandtl numbers; and, finally, by performing a series of three-dimensional time-dependent simulations that revealed detailed insights into the dynamics and spatial reorganization of flow and thermal structures. Strong magnetic field gradients are generated by the superconducting helium-free magnet shown in Fig. 1. The calculated distributions of the magnetic field and resulting gradients for the upper limit of working conditions are shown in Fig. 2. The cubical enclosure can be positioned at different locations along the vertical axis of the superconducting magnet and combined effects (subtractive or additive) of the gravitational and magnetization forces can be generated. The suppression of the flow and heat transfer can be...
We performed combined experimental and numerical studies of the flow and heat transfer of a paramagnetic fluid inside a differentially heated cubical enclosure subjected to various strong non-uniform magnetic field gradients. Two different heating scenarios are considered: unstable (heated from below) and stable (heated from above) initial thermal stratification. In contrast to the previously reported studies in literature, which observed solely laminar flow regimes, we investigated also appearance and sustenance of the periodic-and fully transient-flow motions for the very first time. This was consequence of using significantly stronger magnetic field strength (up to 10 T experimentally, and up to 15 T numerically) than those used in previous studies (up to 5 T). Detailed comparison between experiments and numerical simulations are performed and generally very good agreements were obtained.
Abstract. The experimental studies of the flow and heat transfer of a paramagnetic fluid inside a cubical enclosure in a configuration heated from below and subjected to various strong nonuniform magnetic field gradients are presented. In contrast to the previously reported studies in literature, which observed solely laminar flow regimes, the appearance and sustenance of the periodic-and fully transient -flow motions for the very first time were investigated. This was consequence of using significantly stronger magnetic field gradient (up to 900 T 2 /m) than those used in previous studies (up to 200 T 2 /m). The fluid flow was studied at two Rayleigh numbers: 7.89·10 5 and 1.86·10 6 . Non-monotonic behaviour of flow with increase of imposed magnetic field gradients was observed for both cases. Detailed analysis (Fast Fourier Transform) of temperature time series has been reported. IntroductionFirst reported quantitative studies on the natural convection for a configuration heated from below (also called Rayleigh-Bénard configuration) is dated on 19 th century. The natural convection in such a configuration is widely used in the countless industrial and environmental applications. For many of them a controlling of convection becomes important matter. Application of the external strong magnetic field to paramagnetic, non-conducting working fluid gives such an opportunity. In such system, besides the gravitational force the additional magnetic force occurs. By changing the strength and orientations of imposed magnetic field in reference to gravitational vector the different results could be observed. The potentials of thermal convection of paramagnetic fluid in the presence of a strong stationary magnetic field were firstly presented by [1]. Since then it was investigated both experimentally and numerically (for different geometries and various configurations of magnetic field to gravitation vector), e.g. [6]. All these studies addressed steady laminar flow regimes. The goal of presented investigation was an analysis of unsteady flow regimes in the case of thermal convection. This was achieved, by employing significantly larger magnetic field gradients generated by the state-of-art superconducting magnet (up to 900 T 2 /m, for magnetic field strength in the centre of superconducting magnet bore |b 0 | max =10 T, in contrast to 200 T 2 /m, for magnetic field strength of |b 0 | max =5 T in previous studies). Note that throughout the paper the magnetic field strength conditions were used to identify different flow regimes since it was a simple and easily controllable parameter in experimental investigations, although the magnetic field gradient was the main driving mechanism behind the magnetisation force.
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