The effects of residual accelerations have been studied by using three-dimensional modeling of the flow in a rectangular cell
filled with a liquid, Pr=20, the walls of which were kept at different temperatures. The system was subjected to an acceleration
field, which can be decomposed into two parts: a steady component and another one which varies slowly with time, the frequency
is about f
0≈10
−3 Hz. The convective heat transport and flow characteristics are discussed for different parameters of g-jitter. The high and
low frequency modulation of a sinusoidal g-jitter is discussed. To capture many of the essential characteristics of buoyancy-induced
convection a new approach is suggested, which was developed based on the observation of the trajectories of tracer particles.
On the one hand, it is a typical way to record the flow in experiments. On the other hand, creating database of different
types of trajectories gives the possibility to solve the inverse problem. The shape of the trajectory depends on the g-jitter
parameters. It is shown that for slow convective motions the tracer particles perform loops along trajectory due to g-jitter
with low frequencies, and the additional high frequencies only cause trembling of the shape of these loops. Taking the experimentally
recorded trajectories of tracer particles and comparing with those in the database, one can draw a conclusion about the amplitude
and direction of the resulting gravity vector during the experiment.