Glass Melting Tanks as Models for the Behavior of Mantle

Abstract

The authors have attempted to make clear the characteristics of convection current of molten glass in a cross-fired glass tank furnace by model techniques and also obtained some information about flow patterns of natural convection motion in mantle. In this paper we introduce an outline of our study on the model experiments in glass tank furnace and try to obtain some information about their analogy with mantle flow.