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8.5 Steady-state simulation (Ra = 3.1×10 13 )<br />

In the previous sections, a horizontal penetration test case was investigated<br />

when Ra = 4.5 × 10 8 . In this Rayleigh number as it was shown before, the<br />

turbulence level was low. For instance, the ratio <strong>of</strong> <strong>turbulent</strong> and molecular<br />

viscosity was around 1.0 inside the tube. In this section a horizontal penetra-<br />

tion test case is simulated by the k-ε-AWF when the Rayleigh number has the<br />

value <strong>of</strong>3.1×10 13 to study the effect <strong>of</strong> higher turbulence on the flow structure.<br />

Figures 8.32-8.34 show the flow in the central, X=0, longitudinal, y-z, plane.<br />

A comparison between the axial velocity contours at the two different Rayleigh<br />

numbers, Figures 8.6 and 8.33, shows that the increase in Rayleigh number<br />

causes the outward motion to be confined closer to the lower side <strong>of</strong> the annu-<br />

lus. Outside the penetration, the axial motion is similar to that at the lower Ra.<br />

Corresponding comparisons for the vertical velocity component show for this<br />

velocity component the Rayleigh number has little effect. Similar comparisons<br />

between Figures 8.7 and 8.34, show that increasing the Rayleigh number has an<br />

even weaker effect on the normalised temperature. Comparisons <strong>of</strong> the turbu-<br />

lent kinetic energy contours, Figures 8.7 and 8.34, show that again within the<br />

penetration, there is very little turbulence generation along the surface <strong>of</strong> the<br />

cold tube, and as also noted in the lower Ra case, most <strong>of</strong> the turbulence is gen-<br />

erated by the downward motion along the vertical wall, below the penetration<br />

opening. <strong>The</strong> normalisedk levels, however, increase by an order <strong>of</strong> magnitude<br />

as the Rayleigh number increases from4.5×10 8 to3.1×10 13 . <strong>The</strong> spanwise, U,<br />

velocity comparisons, Figures 8.5 and 8.32, show very little effect <strong>of</strong> Rayleigh<br />

number, while contours <strong>of</strong> the pressure deviation from hydrostatic conditions,<br />

Figures 8.6 and 8.33, show that at the higher Rayleigh number within the pen-<br />

etration the positive deviation occupies a greater proportion <strong>of</strong> the lower half,<br />

but the overall variation is the same at both Ra values.<br />

Figures 8.35-8.36 show the contour plots <strong>of</strong> U, V, W, P ” , k and T inside<br />

the penetration, within cross-sectional planes normal to its axis, at locations<br />

Z=0.23, 0.46, 0.69 and 0.87. Comparisons <strong>of</strong> mean velocity contours, Figures<br />

8.9 and 8.35, reveal a stronger Rayleigh number effect. Near the closed end<br />

<strong>of</strong> the penetration, Z <strong>of</strong> 0.23 and 0.46, the contours <strong>of</strong> the vertical velocity are

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