Category: Tag: convection
The November issue of the Remote Sensing of Environment published a research article “Magma emission rates from shallow submarine eruptions using airborne thermal imaging” by a team of Spanish scientists in collaboration with Italian and American scientists. The researchers used airborne infrared cameras to monitor the 2011–2012 submarine volcanic eruption at El Hierro, Canary Islands […]
The day/night cycle of an SUTThe solar updraft tower is a new-concept clean energy power plant for generating electricity from the sun. Sunshine falling on a greenhouse collector structure around the base of a tall chimney heats the air within it. The …
A Trombe wall is a sun-facing wall separated from the outdoors by glass and an air space. It consists a solar absorber (such as a dark surface) and two vents for air in the house to circulate through the space and carry the solar heat to warm the house…
Last month, North Carolina’s Senate passed a bill that would have required the state’s Coastal Resources Commission to base predictions of future sea level rise along the state’s coast on a steady, linear rate of increase. This has sparked controversie…
The following are two Energy2D simulations that compare convection and conduction, which should run within this page if you have installed Java and Java applets are enabled with your browser. The first one shows the case of natural convection. The seco…
Figure 1. A top view of a floatingice cube.If you have done a convection demo using a container of water and some ink, you may have had to change the water after each demo since the ink had diffused everywhere, which may make the convection pattern les…