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Conditions for the onset of nonpenetrative convection in a horizontal Boussinesq fluid layer subject to a step change in temperature are studied using propagation theory. A wide range of Prandtl numbers and two different kinematic boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-08 C F Ihle , Y Niño

Using direct numerical simulations of Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection (RBC), we perform a comparative study of the spectra and fluxes of energy and entropy, and the scaling of large-scale quantities for large and infinite Prandtl numbers in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-15 Ambrish Pandey , Mahendra K. Verma , Anando G. Chatterjee , Biplab Dutta

Rayleigh-Benard convection in a rotating spherical shell provides a simplified model for convective dynamics of planetary and stellar interiors. In this study, we build more than 200 numerical models of rotating convection in a spherical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-14 Wei Fan , Qi Wang , Yufeng Lin

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

We investigate the effect of an external horizontal magnetic field on the K\"{u}ppers-Lortz instability (KLI) in rotating Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection of Boussinesq fluids using weakly nonlinear theory along with linear theory. By KLI, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-09 Sutapa Mandal , Snehashish Sarkar , Pinaki Pal

We study the nonlinear evolution of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability using three-dimensional MHD simulations. We consider the idealized case of two inviscid, perfectly conducting fluids of constant density separated by a contact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner

In this manuscript, it is analysed the onset and evolution of natural convection of an incompressible fluid between spherical shells. The shells are kept at a fixed temperature difference and aspect ratio, and the Rayleigh-Benard convection…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-07 Luca Santelli , Guiquan Wang , Richard J. A. M. Stevens , Roberto Verzicco

A large number of flows with distinctive patterns have been observed in experiments and simulations of Rayleigh-Benard convection in a water-filled cylinder whose radius is twice the height. We have adapted a time-dependent pseudospectral…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-04-02 Katarzyna Borońska , Laurette S. Tuckerman

For two-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection, classes of unstable, steady solutions were previously computed using numerical continuation (Waleffe, 2015; Sondak, 2015). The `primary' steady solution bifurcates from the conduction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-20 Parvathi Kooloth , David Sondak , Leslie M. Smith

The combined effects of buoyancy-driven Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection (RC) and surface tension-driven Marangoni convection (MC) are studied in a triple-layer configuration which serves as a simplified model for a liquid metal battery…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-31 Thomas Köllner , Thomas Boeck , Jörg Schumacher

Inclined turbulent thermal convection by large Rayleigh numbers in extremely small-Prandtl-number fluids is studied based on results of both, measurements and high-resolution numerical simulations. The Prandtl number $Pr\approx0.0093$…

Combined measurements of velocity components and temperature in a turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection flow at a low Prandtl number of $\mathit{Pr}= 0.029$ and Rayleigh numbers between $10^6 \le \mathit{Ra} \le 6 \times 10^7$ are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-19 Till Zürner , Felix Schindler , Tobias Vogt , Sven Eckert , Jörg Schumacher

Convective turbulence in a Rayleigh Benard system has shown a marked reluctance to exhibit clear scaling in the energy or entropy spectrum. The recent numerical simulation of Pandey, Verma and Mishra has shown significantly better evidence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-06-10 Jayanta Kumar Bhattacharjee

Steady flows that optimize heat transport are obtained for two-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection with no-slip horizontal walls for a variety of Prandtl numbers $Pr$ and Rayleigh number up to $Ra\sim 10^9$. Power law scalings of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 David Sondak , Leslie M. Smith , Fabian Waleffe

Melting and, conversely, solidification processes in the presence of convection are key to many geophysical problems. An essential question related to these phenomena concerns the estimation of the (time-evolving) melting rate, which is…

Rotating turbulent convection occurs ubiquitously in natural convective systems encompassing planetary cores, oceans, and atmospheres, as well as in many industrial applications. While the global heat and mass transfer of water-like…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-08 Yufan Xu , Jewel Abbate , Cy David , Tobias Vogt , Jonathan Aurnou

Quasistatic magnetoconvection of a low Prandtl number fluid ($\textrm{Pr}=0.025)$ with a vertical magnetic field is considered in a unit aspect ratio box with no-slip boundaries. At high relative magnetic field strengths, given by the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-04 Matthew McCormack , Andrei Teimurazov , Olga Shishkina , Moritz Linkmann

We report on direct numerical simulations of two-dimensional, horizontally periodic Rayleigh-B\'enard convection, focusing on its ability to drive large-scale horizontal flow that is vertically sheared. For the Prandtl numbers ($Pr$)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-20 David Goluskin , Hans Johnston , Glenn R. Flierl , Edward A. Spiegel

We perform a numerical study of the heat transfer and flow structure of Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convection in (in most cases regular) porous media, which are comprised of circular, solid obstacles located on a square lattice. This study is…

We investigate states of rapidly rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a cylindrical cell over a range of Rayleigh number $3\times10^5\leq Ra \leq 5\times10^{9}$ and Ekman number $10^{-6} \leq Ek \leq 10^{-4}$ for Prandtl number $Pr =…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-16 Xuan Zhang , Philipp Reiter , Olga Shishkina , Robert E. Ecke