Abstract
The thermohydrodynamics of a dilute superfluid - mixture confined between parallel horizontal planes is studied with the two-fluid equations of Landau and Khalatnikov. When heated from above, downward normal fluid flow concentrates impurities near the cooler bottom plate, creating a potentially unstable density gradient. The linearized equations for the convective amplitudes contain nonclassical two-fluid terms proportional to and to , which alter the critical Rayleigh number from that for a classical one-component fluid. This shift is expected to be smaller near K.
- Received 26 March 1982
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.26.1164
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