Local mass transfer measurements in an inclined enclosure at high Rayleigh number

An electrochemical technique is used to study local mass transfer coefficients on surfaces of inclined enclosures over the range 1.1×104 < RaH < 1.4×1010 for a nominal Schmidt number of 2280. Scaling with gcosθ instead of g in the Rayleigh number correlates the data well at low angles of inclination; however, as either the aspect ratio or the angle of inclination increase, the longitudinal density stratification causes the data to deviate from a power law scaling.

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