Abstract: | Convection in a Hele-Shaw cell is studied analytically and numerically with allowance for heat exchange on the wide faces according to Newton's law. It is shown that this heat exchange has a considerable effect on the amplitude in the neighborhood of the threshold and explains laboratory experiments in which convection was observed even in the case of heating from above.Perm. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 2, pp. 24–32, March–April, 1995. |