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In this work, we investigate the presence and impact of stable eigenmodes in Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection that arises due to a temperature gradient within a fluid system. The nonlinear evolution of the canonical convection system is cast…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-29 Zachary R. Williams , Ava G. Lowe

Many environmental flows arise due to natural convection at a vertical surface, from flows in buildings to dissolving ice faces at marine-terminating glaciers. We use three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of a vertical channel with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Christopher J. Howland , Chong Shen Ng , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

The previous investigation on Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of a dilute classical gas [T. Kita: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. {\bf 75} (2006) 124005] is extended to calculate entropy change of the convective transition with the rigid boundaries. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takafumi Kita

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

In Rayleigh-B\'enard convection, it has been found that the amount of heat passing through the fluid has a power law dependence on the imposed temperature difference. Modifying this dependence, either enhancing or reducing the heat transfer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-14 Jinzi Mac Huang , Jun Zhang

Rayleigh-B{\'e}nard convection is investigated with sulfur hexafluoride (SF$_6$) in the vicinity of its critical point. In the supercritical domain, direct measurements of the heat flux $Q$ as a function of the temperature difference…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-12 Valentin Mouet , Guillaume Michel , François Pétrélis , Stephan Fauve

In a range of physical systems, the first instability in Rayleigh-Bernard convection between nearly thermally insulating horizontal plates is large scale. This holds for thermal convection of fluids saturating porous media. Large-scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-08-20 Denis S. Goldobin , Elizaveta V. Shklyaeva

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

Dependence of boundary layer thickness on layer height in laminar and transient regimes is studied for convection from localised heat source with an open surface. The measurements of Nusselt number and characteristic frequency of thermal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-03 Andrei Sukhanovskii , Anna Evgrafova

Based on mesoscale lattice Boltzmann numerical simulations, we characterize the Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convective dynamics of dispersions of liquid droplets in another liquid phase. Our numerical methodology allows us to modify the…

The influence of the boundary layer properties on the heat transport in turbulent thermal convection is experimentally investigated in a cell with a rough bottom plate.It is shown that the standard 2/7 exponent of the convective heat flow…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Ciliberto , C. Laroche

Turbulent heat and momentum transfer processes due to thermal convection cover many scales and are of great importance for several natural and technical flows. One consequence is that a fully resolved three-dimensional analysis of these…

Turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection displays a large-scale order in the form of rolls and cells on lengths larger than the layer height once the fluctuations of temperature and velocity are removed. These turbulent superstructures are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-30 Ambrish Pandey , Janet D. Scheel , Jörg Schumacher

We simulate numerically Boussinesq convection in non-rotating spherical shells for a fluid with a unity Prandtl number and Rayleigh numbers up to $10^9$. In this geometry, curvature and radial variations of the gravitationnal acceleration…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-28 T. Gastine , J. Wicht , J. M. Aurnou

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…

Rapidly rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection admits a class of exact steady single-mode solutions describing high-amplitude convection cells. Using a matched asymptotic analysis in the high-Rayleigh-number limit, we obtain a rigorous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-08 Gabriel Hadjerci , Shingo Motoki , Genta Kawahara

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

The heat transfer mechanism in Rayleigh-Benard convection in a liquid with a mean temperature close to its boiling point is studied through numerical simulations with point-like vapor bubbles, which are allowed to grow or shrink through…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Paolo Oresta , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse , Andrea Prosperetti

We perform direct numerical simulations of rotating Rayleigh--B\'enard convection of fluids with low ($Pr=0.1$) and high ($Pr=5$) Prandtl numbers in a horizontally periodic layer with no-slip top and bottom boundaries. At both Prandtl…

Two-dimensional direct numerical simulations are conducted for convection sustained by uniform internal heating in a horizontal fluid layer. Top and bottom boundary temperatures are fixed and equal. Prandtl numbers range from 0.01 to 100,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-13 David Goluskin , Edward A. Spiegel