Three-dimensional Computation of Thermocapillary Convection in a Liquid Bridge on the Intel iPSC/860

G. Chen (1) , B. Roux (1) , Dominique Fougere (1)

1 Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Marseille

Motivated by the floating-zone crystal growth process under microgravity environments, several numerical studies have been conducted to understand thermocaillary convection and heat transfer in cylindrical liquid bridges, but most of these investigations have been limited so far to two-dimensional. Here,we present some recent three-dimensional simulation results obtained by using NEKTON on Intel iPSC/860 hypercube which is a distributed memory multiprocessor computer.

Domaines: Mécanique des fluides [physics.class-ph]

G. Chen, B. Roux, Dominique Fougere. Three-dimensional Computation of Thermocapillary Convection in a Liquid Bridge on the Intel iPSC/860. Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD'93), May 1993, Paris, France. pp.1-6. ⟨hal-01309452⟩