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Natural convection in nonvertical wells
Convective instabilities and the shapes of the ensuing convection cells were experimentally studied for nonvertical wellbores. Steady-state temperature distributions were measured for three inclination angles over a wide range of heating rates to demonstrate the effects of drilling angle and Rayleigh number. In addition, velocities were estimated by measuring the time-of-flight of tracers formed by the Thymol blue technique. 8 refs., 6 figs
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