Onset of Convection in a Very Compressible Fluid : The Transient Toward Steady State

Details Onset of Convection in a Very Compressible Fluid : The Transient Toward Steady State Onset of Convection in a Very Compressible Fluid : The Transient Toward Steady State

2002-09-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0209495v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication by Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.66.056310

We analyze the time profile $\Delta T(t)$ of the temperature difference, measured across a very compressible supercritical $^3$He fluid layer in its convective state. The experiments were done along the critical isochore in a Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard cell after starting the vertical constant heat flow $q$. For $q$ sufficiently well above that needed for the convection onset, the transient $\Delta T(t)$ for a given $\epsilon\equiv(T-T_c)/T_c$, with $T_c$ = 3.318K, shows a damped oscillatory profile with period $t_{osc}$ modulating a smooth base profile. The smooth profile forms the exponential tail of the transient which tends to the steady-state $\Delta T(\infty)$ with a time constant $\tau_{tail}$. The scaled times $t_{osc}/t_D$ and $\tau_{tail}/t_D$ from all the data could be collapsed onto two curves as a function of the Rayleigh number over $\sim$ 3.5 decades. Here $t_D$ is the characteristic thermal diffusion time. Furthermore comparisons are made between measurements of a third characteristic time $t_m$ between the first peak and the first minimum in the $\Delta T(t)$ profile and its estimation by Onuki et al. Also comparisons are made between the observed oscillations and the 2D simulations by Onuki et al. and by Amiroudine and Zappoli. For $\epsilon < 9\times 10^{-3}$ the experiments show a crossover to a different transient regime. This new regime, which we briefly describe, is not understood at present.

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