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Thermogravitational mechanism of alignment of the front of chemoconvection patterns with an exothermic chemical reaction

D. A. Bratsun

Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Perm’, 614990, Russia

Abstract: This paper studies the stability of the front of chemoconvective finger patterns spontaneously formed in a two-layer system of reacting liquids placed in a narrow gap between two solid plates. The mathematical model of this process includes a system of equations that take into account chemical reaction, diffusion, and convection, written in the Hele-Shaw approximation. Numerical analysis of the model shows that with increasing intensity of heat release, the envelope of the salt fingers is smoothed and chemoconvection occurs in a narrow region adjacent to the interface.

Keywords: chemoconvection, Rayleigh instability, Rayleigh–Taylor instability, neutralization, heat release.

UDC: 532.23

Received: 15.02.2013
Revised: 30.05.2013

 English version: Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics, 2014, 55:2, 199–208

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