Preliminary Results of Contactless Inductive Flow Tomography for Rayleigh- Bénard Convection Cell with an Aspect Ratio of 0.5

The focus of this presentation is on the numerical study of CIFT on the same RB cell, for an experimentally feasible case of 7x6 sensor configuration and developing the measurement system based on the applicability. The two excitation magnetic fields were kept in the order of 1 mT during the simulation. Sensors are kept outside the RB cell to detect the flow-induced perturbations. The original velocity fields were simulated using OpenFoam solver with a high temporal resolution of 0.5 seconds for 8000 seconds. For reconstruction, only the transient condition between 7000th to 8000th second was considered. Torsional mode analysis is also reported.