Maybe rather than simply knowing a few tricks, understanding the bees and their behaviour will be helpful because how they will act depends on many factors--season, size of colony, breed of bee, age of queen, flow conditions, weather, exterior threats and more...  Any technique may not work as expected if employed at the wrong time and without understanding how it exploits the bees natural tendencies.

During a flow, bees as generally move honey up above the brood nest and even as far from brood as the top box in a stack of supers.  

In dearths, at the end of a flow, or during cool weather, however, they take it down, and can do that rather quickly.  A half-full or even full super one day may be dry when you next return.  

Bees  tend to pack as much honey as they can near the broodnest to where they can cover it .  Any surplus goes above.  

Honey below the broodnest tends to be carried up and unless the hive is plugged and the broodnest has been plugged and driven down to the floor, there are always empty cells below the brood for water and incoming nectar.

Also, bees do not 'like' to store honey near an opening, especially  if there is risk of robbing and will move it away from openings after an intense flow ends. This, plus excess ventilation, is a good reason to be careful with top entrances outside of intense flows or winter.

So, subject to these understandings, if you place a box of uncapped honey under a broodnest you can expect that honey to be carried upwards.  The speed of removal depends on the various factors above.  Granulated honey may be carried up or simply torn out or discarded. 

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