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We report on the transition between two regimes of heat transport in a radiatively driven convection experiment, where a fluid gets heated up within a tunable heating length $\ell$ in the vicinity of the bottom of the tank. The first regime…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-22 V. Bouillaut , S. Lepot , S. Aumaître , B. Gallet

Steady two-dimensional Rayleigh--B\'enard convection between stress-free isothermal boundaries is studied via numerical computations. We explore properties of steady convective rolls with aspect ratios $\pi/5\le\Gamma\le4\pi$, where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-30 Baole Wen , David Goluskin , Matthew LeDuc , Gregory P. Chini , Charles R. Doering

We present high-precision experimental and numerical studies of the Nusselt number $Nu$ as functions of the Rayleigh number $Ra$ in geostrophic rotating convection with domain aspect ratio ${\Gamma}$ varying from 0.4 to 3.8 and the Ekman…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-04 Hao-Yuan Lu , Guang-Yu Ding , Jun-Qiang Shi , Ke-Qing Xia , Jin-Qiang Zhong

We study turbulent natural convection in enclosures with conjugate heat transfer. The simplest way to increase the heat transfer in this flow is through rough surfaces. In numerical simulations often the constant temperature is assigned at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-25 Paolo Orlandi , Sergio Pirozzoli

Laminar-to-turbulence transition in zero-pressure-gradient boundary layer at Mach 4.5 is studied using direct numerical simulations. For a given level of total disturbance energy, the inflow spectra was designed to correspond to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-03 Reza Jahanbakhshi , Tamer A. Zaki

We numerically simulate turbulent Taylor-Couette flow for independently rotating inner and outer cylinders, focusing on the analogy with turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard flow. Reynolds numbers of $Re_i=8\cdot10^3$ and $Re_o=\pm4\cdot10^3$ of the…

We study an optimal transport problem in a compact convex set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ where bulk transport is coupled to dynamic optimal transport on a metric graph $ \mathsf{G} = (\mathsf{V},\mathsf{E})$ which is embedded in $\Omega$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Marcello Carioni , Juliane Krautz , Jan-F. Pietschmann

Optimal transport (OT) theory provides a principled framework for modeling mass movement in applications such as mobility, logistics, and economics. Classical formulations, however, generally ignore capacity limits that are intrinsic in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Anqi Dong , Karl Henrik Johansson , Johan Karlsson

We consider singularly perturbed convection-diffusion equations on one-dimensional networks (metric graphs) as well as the transport problems arising in the vanishing diffusion limit. Suitable coupling condition at inner vertices are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Herbert Egger , Nora Philippi

We consider a general optimal control problem in the setting of gradient flows. Two approximations of the problem are presented, both relying on the variational reformulation of gradient-flow dynamics via the Weighted-Energy-Dissipation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Takeshi Fukao , Ulisse Stefanelli , Riccardo Voso

Both the porous medium equation and the system of isentropic Euler equations can be considered as steepest descents on suitable manifolds of probability measures in the framework of optimal transport theory. By discretizing these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Michael Westdickenberg , Jon Wilkening

Laboratory experiments were conducted to study heat transport characteristics in a nonhomogeneously heated fluid annulus subjected to rotation along the vertical axis (z). The nonhomogeneous heating was obtained by imposing radial and…

We adapt a troubled-cell indicator from discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods to finite volume methods (FVM) with MUSCL reconstruction and using a novel monotonicity parameter show there is a trade-off between convergence and quality of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-26 R Shivananda Rao , M Ramakrishna

The Rayleigh number $Ra$ dependence of the Nusselt number $Nu$ in turbulent Rayleigh--B\'enard convection is numerically investigated for a moderate and low Prandtl number, $Pr=0.7$ and $0.021$, respectively. Here we specifically address…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-18 Marten Klein , Heiko Schmidt

We consider two-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection with Navier-slip and fixed temperature boundary conditions at the two horizontal rough walls described by the height function $h$. We prove rigorous upper bounds on the Nusselt number…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Fabian Bleitner , Camilla Nobili

We study a variant of the dynamical optimal transport problem in which the energy to be minimised is modulated by the covariance matrix of the distribution. Such transport metrics arise naturally in mean-field limits of certain ensemble…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Martin Burger , Matthias Erbar , Franca Hoffmann , Daniel Matthes , André Schlichting

Statistical structure and the underlying energy budget of wall shear stress fluctuations are studied in both Poiseulle and Couette flows with emphasis on its streamwise component. Using a dimensional analysis and direct numerical simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-16 Myoungkyu Lee , Yongyun Hwang

A novel algorithm is proposed to solve the sample-based optimal transport problem. An adversarial formulation of the push-forward condition uses a test function built as a convolution between an adaptive kernel and an evolving probability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-11 Daeyoung Kim , Esteban G. Tabak

This paper is concerned with the optimal upper bound on mean quantities (torque, dissipation and the Nusselt number) obtained in the framework of the background method for the Taylor--Couette flow with a stationary outer cylinder. Along the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-19 Anuj Kumar

The possible transition to the so-called ultimate regime, wherein both the bulk and the boundary layers are turbulent, has been an outstanding issue in thermal convection, since the seminal work by Kraichnan [Phys. Fluids 5, 1374 (1962)].…