English
Related papers

Related papers: Internal heating driven convection at infinite Pra…

200 papers

Motivated by understanding the dynamics of stellar and planetary interiors, we have performed a set of direct numerical simulations of Boussinesq convection in a rotating full sphere. The domain is internally heated with fixed temperature…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yufeng Lin , Andrew Jackson

We study Rayleigh B\'enard convection based on the Boussinesq approximation. We are interested in upper bounds on the Nusselt number $\mathrm{Nu}$, the upwards heat transport, in terms of the Rayleigh number $\mathrm{Ra}$, that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Antoine Choffrut , Camilla Nobili , Felix Otto

Penetrative turbulence, which occurs in a convectively unstable fluid layer and penetrates into an adjacent, originally stably stratified layer, is numerically and theoretically analyzed. We chose the most relevant example, namely thermally…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-30 Qi Wang , Philipp Reiter , Detlef Lohse , Olga Shishkina

The shape of velocity and temperature profiles near the horizontal conducting plates in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection are studied numerically and experimentally over the Rayleigh number range $10^8\lesssim…

We study an inverse boundary value problem on the determination of principal order coefficients in isotropic nonautonomous heat flows stated as follows; given a medium, and in the absence of heat sources and sinks, can the time-dependent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Ali Feizmohammadi

Steady but generally unstable solutions of the 2D Boussinesq equations are obtained for no-slip boundary conditions and Prandtl number 7. The primary solution that bifurcates from the conduction state at Rayleigh number $Ra \approx 1708$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-11 Fabian Waleffe , Anakewit Boonkasame , Leslie M. Smith

We consider a general compressible viscous and heat conducting fluid confined between two parallel plates and heated from the bottom. The time evolution of the fluid is described by the Navier--Stokes--Fourier system considered in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Peter Bella , Eduard Feireisl , Florian Oschmann

Thermal convection in fluid layers heated from below are usually realized experimentally as well as treated theoretically with fixed boundaries on which conditions for the temperature and the velocity field are prescribed. The thermal and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-08 R. D. Simitev , F. H. Busse

We numerically investigate turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection with gas bubbles attached to the hot plate, mimicking a core feature in electrolysis, catalysis, or boiling. The existence of bubbles on the plate reduces the global heat…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-17 Hao-Ran Liu , Kai Leong Chong , Rui Yang , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

The buoyancy-driven boundary-layer flow that develops over a semi-infinite inclined hot plate is known to become unstable at a finite distance from the leading edge, characterized by a critical value of the Grashof number Gr based on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-03 Prabakaran Rajamanickam , Wilfried Coenen , Antonio L. Sánchez

Recently, Kaladze and Misra [Phys. Scr. 99 (2024) 085013] showed that the tropospheric stratified fluid flows may be unstable by the effects of the negative temperature gradient and the temperature-dependent density inhomogeneity arising…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-30 A. P. Misra , T. D. Kaladze , D. T. Kaladze , L. Tsamalashvili

In the quest to understand the basic universal features of compressible convection, one would like to disentangle genuine consequences of compression from spatial variations of transport properties. In the present work, we consider a very…

We report a new thermal boundary layer equation for turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection for Prandtl number Pr>1 that takes into account the effect of turbulent fluctuations. These fluctuations are neglected in existing equations, which are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-23 Olga Shishkina , Susanne Horn , Sebastian Wagner , Emily S. C. Ching

In heat exchangers, an incompressible fluid is heated initially and cooled at the boundary. The goal is to transfer the heat to the boundary as efficiently as possible. In this paper we study a related steady version of this problem where a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Gautam Iyer , Truong-Son Van

A statistical-mechanical investigation is performed on Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of a dilute classical gas starting from the Boltzmann equation. We first present a microscopic derivation of basic hydrodynamic equations and an expression…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takafumi Kita

Realistic boundaries of finite heat conductivity Realistic boundaries of finite heat conductivity for thermoconvection in a Rayleigh-B\'enard setup with magnetized ferrofluids are investigated. A linear stability analysis of the conductive…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Recktenwald , M. Luecke

The present work deals with irreversible Universal thermodynamics. The homogenous and isotropic flat model of the universe is chosen as open thermodynamical system and non-equilibrium thermodynamics comes into picture due to the mechanism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-17 Subhajit Saha , Atreyee Biswas , Subenoy Chakraborty

We investigate the dependency of the magnitude of heat transfer in a convection cell as a function of its inclination by means of experiments and simulations. The study is performed with a working fluid of large Prandtl number, $Pr \simeq…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-29 Linfeng Jiang , Chao Sun , Enrico Calzavarini

Penetrative turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection which depends on the density maximum of water near $4^\circ\rm{C}$ is studied using two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) direct numerical simulations (DNS). The working fluid is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-26 Qi Wang , Quan Zhou , Zhen-Hua Wan , De-Jun Sun

We investigate the linear stability of a thermally stratified fluid layer confined between horizontal walls and subject to continuous injection of dilute thermal particles at one boundary and extraction at the opposite, forming a…