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[russellarnott]

Hello all,

 

I am a marine biology student in the UK. I am looking at running a number of turbulence experiments on large polyethylene water tanks (5m height x 0.8 m inner diameter) in which I want to mix the tanks via convection by gently heating the bottom third of the tank to prevent stratification by inverting the natural density profile.

 

It would appear that this is an atypical way of mixing water for turbulent experiment and as such, I thought I'd dip into another field - but it's quite a minefield!

 

As such, would anyone please be able to point me to a useful website / paper that might help me get a handle on previous work and potential methodologies to help me quantify the mixing.

 

Kind regards,

 

Russell

[Mahdi1980]

Hi,

You should review some text books about "Heat transfer" specially sections about "Natural convection".

One of the well-known books are heat transfer written by Holman .

Anyhow , you should have the initial information about the heat transfer.

 

Holamn heat transfer is attached.

[spchauhan12]

russellarnott,

 

           Please check in D Q Kern heat transfer book.

 

 

Regards,

 

SPC