The flow instability in a rectangular natural convection loop was investigated focusing on its displacement angle and the cooling water temperature.Unstable chaotic temperature oscillation with flow reversal has occurred in silicone oils KF96-1 & -2 as well as in water, but in the case of water (cooling water temperature
Tc=30°C) the unstable state starts at the transitional region from laminar to turbulent, while in the case of silicone oils (
Tc=20 & 30°C) it does after the laminar becomes turbulent. It has been found that on the effect of displacement angle θ
0 the unstable state occurs in | θ
0 | <2°, narrow relatively to in the case of a toroidal loop, and that on the effect of cooling water temperature, the lower it is, the narrower the region of unstable flow.
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