Large scale dynamics in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection
Fluid Dynamics
2015-05-13 v1 Geophysics
Abstract
The progress in our understanding of several aspects of turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection is reviewed. The focus is on the question of how the Nusselt number and the Reynolds number depend on the Rayleigh number Ra and the Prandtl number Pr, and on how the thicknesses of the thermal and the kinetic boundary layers scale with Ra and Pr. Non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq effects and the dynamics of the large-scale convection-roll are addressed as well. The review ends with a list of challenges for future research on the turbulent Rayleigh-Benard system.
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@article{arxiv.0811.0471,
title = {Large scale dynamics in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection},
author = {Guenter Ahlers and Siegfried Grossmann and Detlef Lohse},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0471},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Review article, 34 pages, 13 figures, Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, in press (2009)