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We present a numerical study of convection in a horizontal layer comprising a fluid-saturated porous bed overlain by an unconfined fluid layer. Convection is driven by a vertical, destabilising temperature difference applied across the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-07 Thomas Le Reun , Duncan R. Hewitt

We present a numerical study of Rayleigh-B\'enard convection disturbed by a longitudinal wind. Our results show that under the action of the wind, the vertical heat flux through the cell initially decreases, due to the mechanism of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrea Scagliarini , Armann Gylfason , Federico Toschi

The onset of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability is studied a compressible Brownian Yukawa fluid mixture on the ``molecular'' length and time scales of the individual particles. As a model, a two-dimensional phase-separated symmetric binary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Wysocki , H. Löwen

A model for the structure function constant associated with index of refraction fluctuations in Rayleigh-Benard turbulence is developed. The model is based upon the following assumptions: (1) the turbulence is homogeneous and isotropic at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-01 Robert A. Handler , Richard J. Watkins , Silvia Matt , K. P. Judd

This study uses two-dimensional molecular dynamics simulations to explore Rayleigh-Taylor-like instability in a strongly coupled binary complex plasma, when heavier dust particles are positioned above the lighter ones, having the same…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Priya Deshwal , Hitendra K. Malik

A series of numerical simulations of Rayleigh-B{\'e}nard convection in a cubic cavity are conducted in order to examine the structure of the thermal boundary layer in case of mixed boundary conditions. The main goal of the study is the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-29 Andrei Sukhanovskii , Andrei Vasiliev

In 1997, a Rayleigh-B\'enard experiment evidenced a significant increase of the heat transport efficiency for Rayleigh numbers larger than $Ra \sim 10^{12}$ and interpreted this observation as the signature of the Kraichnan's ``Ultime…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-07 Frédéric Gauthier , Philippe-Emmanuel P. -E. Roche

Turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection is often modelled with a constant surface temperature. However, the surface temperature of many geophysical systems, such as lakes, is coupled to the atmospheric forcing. In this paper, we account…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-14 Jason Olsthoorn

Dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) is a well-established mesoscale simulation method. However, there have been long-standing ambiguities regarding the dependence of its (purely repulsive) force field parameter on temperature as well as the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Peter Vanya , Jonathan Sharman , James A. Elliott

The Rayleigh-Plateau instability occurs when surface tension makes a fluid column become unstable to small perturbations. At nanometer scales, thermal fluctuations are comparable to surface energy densities. Consequently, at these scales,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-21 Bryn Barker , John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia

We present simulations of coherent structures in compressible flows near the transition to turbulence using the Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) method. The structures we find are remarkably consistent with experimental observations and…

We have found a multi-scale steady solution of the Boussinesq equations for Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a three-dimensional periodic domain between horizontal plates with a constant temperature difference by using a homotopy from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-16 Shingo Motoki , Genta Kawahara , Masaki Shimizu

We analyze the time profile $\Delta T(t)$ of the temperature difference, measured across a very compressible supercritical $^3$He fluid layer in its convective state. The experiments were done along the critical isochore in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Horst Meyer , Andrei B. Kogan

The problem of convective instability onset in a horizontal porous channel is explored. The channel's impermeable walls are heated with asymmetric thermal conditions modelled through unequal, but uniform, wall heat fluxes. A stationary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-22 A. Barletta , M. Celli , P. V. Brandão

By utilizing diffusion maps embedding and transition matrix analysis we investigate sparse temperature measurement time-series data from Rayleigh--B\'enard convection experiments in a cylindrical container of aspect ratio $\Gamma=D/L=0.5$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-12 Péter Koltai , Stephan Weiss

We study experimentally and theoretically transition phenomena caused by the external forcing from Rayleigh-Benard convection with the large-scale circulation (LSC) to the limiting regime of unstably stratified turbulent flow without LSC…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Bukai , A. Eidelman , T. Elperin , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , I. Sapir-Katiraie

It is well known that energy dissipation and finite size can deeply affect the dynamics of granular matter, often making usual hydrodynamic approaches problematic. Here we report on the experi-mental investigation of a small model system,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-31 Andrea Gnoli , Giorgio Pontuale , Andrea Puglisi , Alberto Petri

Experimental measurements of properties of the large-scale circulation (LSC) in turbulent convection of a fluid heated from below in a cylindrical container of aspect ratio one are presented and used to test a model of diffusion in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eric Brown , Guenter Ahlers

A chemotaxis-diffusion-convection coupling system for describing a form of buoyant convection in which the fluid develops convection cells and plume patterns will be investigated numerically in this study. Based on the two-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-19 Yannick Deleuze , Chen-Yu Chiang , Marc Thiriet , Tony W. H. Sheu

To understand turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers typical of natural phenomena, computational studies in slender cells are an option if the needed resources have to be optimized within available limits. However, the…