Dependence of the temperature fields of a thin vertical wall on the intensity of the oncoming flow of a heated liquid

Abstract

Abstract The processes of the development of free convection of ethanol in the regimes of heating the vertical wall of a rectangular cavity are experimentally investigated. The hydrodynamics in the cavity and the dependence of the temperature field on the opposite thin vertical wall are studied. Non-stationary temperature fields on a thin wall were measured with a thermal imager. The experiments were carried out at different densities of heat fluxes on the heater and at a discrete set of heights of the liquid layers.