The Equations of Motion for Thermally Driven , Buoya nt Flows Ronald
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In this paper a set of approximate equations is derived which is applicable to very nonadiabatic, nondissipative, buoyant flows of a perfect gas. The flows are assumed to be generated by a heat source in which the heat is added slowly. The study is motivated by the occurrence of such flows in fires.There, the time scale associated with the fire growth and resultant fluid motion is usually long compared with the transit time of an acoustic signal (based on the temperature derived from the heat added) across the spatial extent of the lire. The appromate equations are characterized by a spatially uniform mean pressure appearing in both the energy equa an and the equation of state with the spatially nonuniform portion of the pressure only appearing in the momentum equation. Therefore, the pressure remains almost constant in space while significant density and temperature variations, such a s might occur in a lire, are allowed. The approximate equations are shown to reduce to the Boussinesq equations when the heat addition is mild. These equations are also shown in general to admit internal-wave motions while “filtering out” high-frequency, acoustic waves. In addition, they are shown to he expressible in conservation form, the pressure satisfying an elliptic equation whose homogeneous terms are derivable from the wave equation by letting the sound speed become infinite. An equation for the mean pressure is also obtained. For the special case of a room heated at a uniform rate with a small leak to the outside, an approximate solution for the mean pressure is deterrnincd explicitly.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003