Abstract
In this paper we describe a novel experimental apparatus consisting of a thermoelectric driven heating and cooling device that could be used in didactic laboratories and research. Is possible to model common environmental flows by means of convective cooling and/or heating. We describe here a four cell device, in a 3D enclosure, but furthermore, it is possible to generate a convective flow of complex profiles using an array of thermoelectric devices (Peltier/Seebeck cells) controlled by a thermal proportional-integral-derivative controller generating a multisource buoyant flux. When convective heating and cooling takes place the combination of internal waves and buoyant turbulence is much more complicated if the Rayleigh and Reynolds numbers are high in order to study entrainment and mixing. The experiments made by our thermoelectric driven device could be used to analyze complex mixing, in either low or high Prandtl numbers, using scalar or heat transport in different liquids. From the varied experiments carried out with our device, we can compute and visualize the fields of velocity, vorticity, density and their gradients, here just a few configurations and the corresponding flows will be shown.
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