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Previous numerical studies have shown that the "ultimate regime of thermal convection" can be attained in a Rayleigh-Benard cell when the kinetic and thermal boundary layers are eliminated by replacing the walls with periodic boundary…

We report on experimental determinations of the temperature field in the interior (bulk) of turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection for a cylindrical sample with aspect ratio (diameter over height) of 0.50, both in the classical and in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Guenter Ahlers , Eberhard Bodenschatz , Xiaozhou He

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 Rayleigh-Benard convection in the high-Rayleigh-number and high-Prandtl-number regime, i.e., we consider a fluid in a container that is exposed to strong heating of the bottom and cooling of the top plate in the absence of inertia…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Christian Seis

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

The impact of variable material properties, such as temperature-dependent thermal conductivity and dynamical viscosity, on the dynamics of a fully compressible turbulent convection flow beyond the anelastic limit are studied in the present…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-30 John Panickacheril John , Jörg Schumacher

We report the observation of superstructures, i.e.\ very large-scale and long living coherent structures in highly turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection up to Rayleigh $Ra=10^9$. We perform direct numerical simulations in horizontally…

We conduct direct numerical simulations for turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard (RB) convection, driven simultaneously by two scalar components (say, temperature and salt concentration) with different molecular diffusivities, and measure the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-04 Yantao Yang , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding and to model the processes controlling the amplitude of the wind of Rayleigh-Benard convection. We analyze results from direct simulation of an L/H = 4 aspect-ratio domain with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-29 Maarten van Reeuwijk , Harm J. J. Jonker , Kemo Hanjalic

We report heat transfer and temperature profile measurements in laboratory experiments of rapidly rotating convection in water under intense thermal forcing (Rayleigh number $Ra$ as high as $\sim 10^{13}$) and unprecedentedly strong…

Many natural and industrial turbulent flows are subjected to time-dependent boundary conditions. Despite being ubiquitous, the influence of temporal modulations (with frequency $f$) on global transport properties has hardly been studied.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-14 Rui Yang , Kai Leong Chong , Qi Wang , Roberto Verzicco , Olga Shishkina , Detlef Lohse

We investigate the structures of the near-plate velocity and temperature profiles at different horizontal positions along the conducting bottom (and top) plate of a Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection cell, using two-dimensional (2D) numerical…

Latitudinal variations in turbulent heat flux play a key role in the thermal and magnetic evolution of rapidly rotating planets and stars. Although global spherical-shell simulations have documented such variations, explicit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Veeraraghavan Kannan , Varghese Mathai , Xiaojue Zhu

A Rayleigh-B\'enard cell has been designed to explore the Prandtl (Pr) dependence of turbulent convection in the cross-over range $0.7<Pr<21$ and for the full range of soft and hard turbulences, up to Rayleigh number $Ra\simeq 10^{11}$. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 P. -E. Roche , B. Castaing , B. Chabaud , B. Hebral

We present three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (RBC) in the Lagrangian frame of reference for Rayleigh numbers $10^5 \leq Ra \leq 10^{10}$ and a Prandtl number $Pr=0.7$ in a plane layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 Matti Ettel , Roshan J. Samuel , Michael Chertkov , Jörg Schumacher

The convective instability in a plane liquid layer with time-dependent temperature profile is investigated by means of a general method suitable for linear stability analysis of an unsteady basic flow. The method is based on a non-normal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Doumenc , T. Boeck , B. Guerrier , M. Rossi

Turbulent superstructures in horizontally extended three-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection flows are investigated in controlled laboratory experiments in water at Prandtl number $Pr = 7$. A Rayleigh-B\'enard cell with square…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-03 Sebastian Moller , Theo Käufer , Ambrish Pandey , Jörg Schumacher , Christian Cierpka

Rayleigh--B\'enard (RB) convection, the flow in a fluid layer heated from below and cooled from above, is used to analyze the transition to the geostrophic regime of thermal convection. In the geostrophic regime, which is of direct…

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

We offer a unifying theory for turbulent purely internally heated convection, generalizing the unifying theories of Grossmann and Lohse (2000, 2001) for Rayleigh--B\'enard turbulence and of Shishkina, Grossmann and Lohse (2016) for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-10 Qi Wang , Detlef Lohse , Olga Shishkina