| Preface | 5 |
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| List of contributing authors | 11 |
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| 1 Equations of fluid motion | 17 |
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| 1.1 Basic hypotheses of continuum | 17 |
| 1.2 Two methods for the continuum description. Translation formula | 20 |
| 1.3 Integral conservation laws. Equations of continuous motion | 23 |
| 1.4 Thermodynamics aspects | 29 |
| 1.5 Classical models of liquids and gases | 32 |
| 2 Conditions on the interface between fluids and on solid walls | 40 |
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| 2.1 Notion of the interface | 40 |
| 2.2 Kinematic condition | 41 |
| 2.3 Dynamic condition | 42 |
| 2.4 Elements of thermodynamics of the interface | 47 |
| 2.5 Conditions of continuity | 49 |
| 2.6 Energy transfer across the interface | 50 |
| 2.7 Free surfaces | 55 |
| 2.8 Additional conditions | 57 |
| 3 Models of convection of an isothermally incompressible fluid | 60 |
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| 3.1 Isothermally incompressible fluid | 60 |
| 3.2 Equations of thermal convection of an isothermally incompressible fluid | 62 |
| 3.3 Model of linear thermal expansion | 63 |
| 3.4 Some submodels | 65 |
| 3.5 On boundary conditions | 67 |
| 3.6 Two problems of convection | 69 |
| 4 Hierarchy of convection models in closed volumes | 76 |
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| 4.1 Initial relations | 76 |
| 4.2 Similarity criteria | 78 |
| 4.3 Transition to dimensional variables | 80 |
| 4.4 Expansion in the small parameter | 83 |
| 4.5 Equations of microconvection of an isothermally incompressible fluid | 87 |
| 4.6 Oberbeck-Boussinesq equations | 90 |
| 4.7 Linear model of the transitional process | 91 |
| 4.8 Some conclusions | 94 |
| 4.9 Convection of nonisothermal liquids and gases under microgravity conditions | 97 |
| 4.10 Convection of a thermally inhomogeneous weakly compressible fluid | 104 |
| 4.11 Exact solutions in an infinite band | 109 |
| 4.12 Analysis of well-posedness of the initial-boundary problem for equations of convection of a weakly compressible fluid | 121 |
| 5 Invariant submodels of microconvection equations | 131 |
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| 5.1 Basic model and its group properties | 131 |
| 5.2 Optimal subsystems of the subalgebras T1 and T2, factor-systems, and some solutions | 134 |
| 5.3 On one steady solution of microconvection equations in a vertical layer | 142 |
| 5.4 Solvability of a nonstandard boundary-value problem | 153 |
| 5.5 Unsteady solution of microconvection equations in an infinite band | 160 |
| 5.6 Invariant solutions of microconvection equations that describe the motion with an interface | 166 |
| 6 Group properties of equations of thermodiffusion motion | 173 |
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| 6.1 Lie group of thermodiffusion equations | 173 |
| 6.2 Group properties of two-dimensional equations | 190 |
| 6.3 Invariant submodels and exact solutions of thermodiffusion equations | 198 |
| 7 Stability of equilibrium states in the Oberbeck-Boussinesq model | 214 |
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| 7.1 Convective instability of a horizontal layer with oscillations of temperature on the free boundary | 214 |
| 7.2 Instability of a liquid layers with an interface | 224 |
| 7.3 Convection in a rotating fluid layer under microgravity conditions | 233 |
| 8 Small perturbations and stability of plane layers in the microconvection model | 243 |
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| 8.1 Equations of small perturbations | 243 |
| 8.2 Stability of the equilibrium state of a plane layer with solid walls | 247 |
| 8.3 Emergence of microconvection in a plane layer with a free boundary | 257 |
| 8.4 Stability of a steady flow in a vertical layer | 268 |
| 9 Numerical simulation of convective flows under microgravity conditions | 279 |
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| 9.1 Numerical methods used for calculations | 279 |
| 9.2 Numerical study of unsteady microconvection in canonical domains with solid boundaries | 290 |
| 9.3 Numerical study of steady microconvection in domains with free boundaries | 307 |
| 9.4 Study of convection induced by volume expansion | 323 |
| 9.5 Convection in miscible fluids | 343 |
| 10 Convective flows in tubes and layers | 363 |
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| 10.1 Group-theoretical nature of the Birikh solution and its generalizations | 363 |
| 10.2 An axial convective flow in a rotating tube with a longitudinal temperature gradient | 371 |
| 10.3 Unsteady analogs of the Birikh solutions | 379 |
| 10.4 Model of viscous layer deformation by thermocapillary forces | 393 |
| Bibliography | 417 |
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| Index | 431 |