Solution Exercise 7

The value for H can be obtained from Figure 9, with which the Rayleigh number can be calculated as:

\displaystyle Ra=\frac{\Delta \rho gkH}{\mu D_{T}}=\frac{3\times 9.81\times 10^{-10}\times 100}{1.0\times 10^{-3}\times 1.0\times 10^{-6}}=2.9\times 10^{2}

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