Thermal Convection and Conduction Mapping

An entirely different type of transport is formed by thermal convection and conduction. Flow induced by thermal convection can be examined by the phaseencoding techniques described above [8, 44, 45] or by time-of-flight methods [28, 45]. The latter provide less quantitative but more illustrative representations of thermal convection rolls. The origin of any heat transport, namely temperature gradients and spatial temperature distributions, can also be mapped with the aid of NMR techniques. Of course, there is no direct encoding method such as those for flow parameters. However, there are a number of other parameters, for example, relaxation times, which strongly depend on the temperature so that these parameters can be calibrated correspondingly. Examples are described in Refs. [8, 46, 47], for instance. 

The temperature mapping method used in Ref. [8] is based on measurements of the spin-lattice relaxation time Ti of a suitable liquid such as ethylene glycol filling 

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