Contained non-homogeneous flow under gravity or how to stratify a fluid in the laboratory
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It is demonstrated that the basic stratification in a fluid region subject to thermal forcing may be predicted rather simply for a fairly wide class of boundary conditions. Explicit solutions are derived in certain cases. A useful experimental method for maintaining a stratified system with arbitrarily specified vertical variation of density emerges from the analysis. A preliminary laboratory experiment has demonstrated the efficiency of this method. The restrictions on the validity of the theory involve a limitation on the thermal forcing of the fluid, which may be expressed as an upper limit on the thermal conductance of the boundary of the region. Furthermore, the buoyancy frequency characterizing the solution must be sufficiently large to give rise to a boundary-layer-type flow pattern.
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