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Statistical properties of turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection at low Prandtl numbers (Pr), which are typical for liquid metals such as mercury, gallium or liquid sodium, are investigated in high-resolution three-dimensional spectral…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-13 Janet D. Scheel , Joerg Schumacher

Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection with phase changes in an extended layer between two parallel impermeable planes is studied by means of three-dimensional direct numerical simulations for Rayleigh numbers between 10^4 and 1.5\times 10^7…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-07-27 Thomas Weidauer , Joerg Schumacher

We present experimental results for Rayleigh-Benard convection with rotation about a vertical axis at dimensionless rotation rates in the range 0 to 250 and upto 20% above the onset. Critical Rayleigh numbers and wavenumbers agree with…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Kapil M. S. Bajaj , Jun Liu , Brian Naberhuis , Guenter Ahlers

This work introduces a new higher-order super-compact (HOSC) implicit finite difference scheme for analyzing three-dimensional (3D) natural convection and entropy generation in non-Newtonian fluids. The proposed scheme achieves fourth-order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-12 Ashwani Punia , Rajendra K. Ray

(abridged) Context: The ratio of kinematic viscosity to thermal diffusivity, the Prandtl number, is much smaller than unity in stellar convection zones. Aims: To study the statistics of convective flows and energy transport as functions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Petri J. Käpylä

We report an experimental investigation of turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection in a rectangular cell of large aspect ratio ($\Gamma = 10$) over the Rayleigh number range $5.4\times10^7 \le Ra \le 7.2\times10^9$ and Prandtl number range…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-23 Yi-Zhen Li , Jun-Jie Huo , Xin Chen , Heng-Dong Xi

We investigate the large-scale circulation (LSC) in a turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection flow in a cubic closed convection cell by means of direct numerical simulations at a Rayleigh number $Ra=10^6$. The numerical studies are conducted…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-20 Priyanka Maity , Péter Koltai , Jörg Schumacher

Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (RBC) is a fundamental problem of fluid dynamics, with many applications to geophysical, astrophysical, and industrial flows. Understanding RBC at parameter regimes of interest requires complex physical or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Andrew Clarke , Chris Davies , Daniel Ruprecht , Steven Tobias , Jeffrey S. Oishi

In planetary fluid cores, the density depends on temperature and chemical composition, which diffuse at very different rates. This leads to various instabilities, bearing the name of double-diffusive convection. We investigate rotating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-04 Rémy Monville , Jérémie Vidal , David Cébron , Nathanaël Schaeffer

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

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

The onset of dynamo action is investigated within the context of a newly developed low Rossby, low magnetic Prandtl number, convection-driven dynamo model. This multiscale model represents an asymptotically exact form of an $\alpha^2$ mean…

Two-dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor(RT) instability problem is simulated with a multiple-relaxation-time discrete Boltzmann model with gravity term. The viscosity, heat conductivity and Prandtl number effects are probed from the macroscopic and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-07 Feng Chen , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang

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

Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in rotating spherical shells can be considered as a simplified analogue of many astrophysical and geophysical fluid flows. Here, we use three-dimensional direct numerical simulations to study this physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-23 T. Gastine , J. Wicht , J. Aubert

We present a numerical study of vorticity production and transport in the two-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convection. Direct numerical simulations are carried out in the Rayleigh number ($Ra$) range $10^{5}\le Ra \le 10^{6}$, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-20 Ao Xu , Ben-Rui Xu , Li-Sheng Jiang , Heng-Dong Xi

We compute the spectra and fluxes of the velocity and temperature fields in Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection in turbulent regime for a wide range of Prandtl numbers using pseudo-spectral simulations on $512^3$ grids. Our spectral and flux…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-05-21 Pankaj Kumar Mishra , Mahendra K. Verma

Recent investigations show that steady solutions share many features with turbulent Rayleigh--B\'enard convection (RBC) and form the state space skeleton of turbulent dynamics. Previous computations of steady roll solutions in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-13 Alexander Takla , Baole Wen

We study the dynamics of localised perturbations in plane Couette flow with periodic lateral boundary conditions. For small Reynolds number and small amplitude of the initial state the perturbation decays on a viscous time scale $t \propto…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Armin Schmiegel , Bruno Eckhardt

We use well resolved numerical simulations with the Lattice Boltzmann Method to study Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in cells with a fractal boundary in two dimensions for $Pr = 1$ and $Ra \in \left[10^7, 10^{10}\right]$. The fractal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-25 Srikanth Toppaladoddi , Andrew J. Wells , Charles R. Doering , John S. Wettlaufer