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Heat and momentum transfer of low-Prandtl-number fluid ($Pr=0.029$) in a closed rectangular cavity ($100\times60\times10$ mm$^3$) heated at one side and cooled at the opposite side are analyzed. The electromagnetic forces into the liquid…
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The French collaborative Trio4CLF project aims to understand and control the cryogenic cooling of amplifiers for high power (~1 PetaWatt) and high repetition rate (1-10 Hertz) lasers. In such amplifiers, the fluid (low temperature gaseous…
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We study the statistical mechanics of supercooled liquids when the system evolves at a temperature $T$ with a field $\epsilon$ linearly coupled to its overlap with a reference configuration of the same liquid sampled at a temperature $T_0$.…
In the context of transpiration cooling, a 1D porous medium model consisting of a temperature system and a mass-momentum system is derived from the 2D/3D Darcy-Forchheimer equations. The temperatures of the coolant and the solid are assumed…
Mixed convection above a horizontal disk rotating in a semi-infinite fluid is examined when the disk is heated so that its temperature varies quadratically with distance away from its centre. Steady similarity solutions are presented for a…
This work introduces a novel Lagrangian-based framework to analyze forced convective heat transfer in the unsteady wake of a heated elliptical cylinder inclined at angles ranging from $\theta = 0^\circ$ to $90^\circ$, in $15^\circ$…
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We present a numerical study of the reversals and reorientations of the large scale circulation (LSC) of convective fluid in a cylindrical container of aspect ratio one. We take Prandtl number to be 0.7 and Rayleigh numbers in the range…