Julaporn Kaenton
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
Victoria Timchenko
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
Mohammed El Ganaoui
Sciences des Procedes Ceramiques et des Traitements de Surface (SPCTS), UMR CNRS 6638, Faculte des Sciences de Limoges 123, av. A. Thomas - 87060 Limoges Cedex
Graham de Vahl Davis
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia
Eddie Leonardi
Computational Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratory, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2052
Seng S. Leong
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2052
The effects of anisotropy in thermal conductivity and of a range of solid/liquid conductivity ratios on convection and flow in a stationary inverted Bridgman apparatus have been investigated, with the growth of crystals of gallium in mind. A variety of steady and unsteady flow patterns, both symmetric and asymmetric, was observed. Transition Rayleigh numbers have been identified.
