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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

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

Direct numerical simulations are employed to reveal three distinctly different flow regions in rotating spherical Rayleigh-B\'enard convection. In the low-latitude region $\mathrm{I}$ vertical (parallel to the axis of rotation) convective…

Based on direct numerical simulations and symmetry arguments, we show that the large-scale Fourier modes are useful tools to describe the flow structures and dynamics of flow reversals in Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (RBC). We observe that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-27 Mani Chandra , Mahendra K. Verma

We study an effect of large-scale coherent structures on global properties of turbulent convection in laboratory experiments in air flow in a rectangular chamber with aspect ratios $A \approx 2$ and $A\approx 4$ (with the Rayleigh numbers…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Bukai , A. Eidelman , T. Elperin , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii , I. Sapir-Katiraie

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

One prominent feature in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn is the appearance of large-scale vortices. However, the sustaining mechanism of these large-scale vortices remains unclear. One possible mechanism is that these large-scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-30 Tao Cai

The coarsening and wavenumber selection of striped states growing from random initial conditions are studied in a non-relaxational, spatially extended, and far-from-equilibrium system by performing large-scale numerical simulations of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 M. R. Paul , K-H. Chiam , M. C. Cross , P. F. Fischer

Turbulent convection processes in nature are often found to be organized in a hierarchy of plume structures and flow patterns. The gradual aggregation of convection cells or granules to a supergranule which eventually fills the whole…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-16 Philipp P. Vieweg , Janet D. Scheel , Jörg Schumacher

Two types of spontaneous breaking of the space translational symmetry in distributed chaos have been considered for turbulent thermal convection at large values of Rayleigh number. First type is related to boundaries and second type is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-19 A. Bershadskii

We have investigated the organization and dynamics of the large turbulent structures that develop in the logarithmic and outer layers of high-Reynolds-number wall flows. These structures have sizes comparable to the flow thickness and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-11 Juan C. del Alamo

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

Three-dimensional miscible Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) turbulence at small Atwood number and at Prandtl number one is investigated by means of high resolution direct numerical simulations of the Boussinesq equations. RT turbulence is a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Boffetta , A. Mazzino , S. Musacchio , L. Vozella

We study the structure of the thermal boundary layer (BL) in Rayleigh-B\'enard convection for Prandtl number ($Pr$) 0.021 by conducting direct numerical simulations in a two-dimensional square box for Rayleigh numbers ($Ra$) up to $10^9$.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-11 Ambrish Pandey

A solvable turbulent model is used to predict both the structure of the boundary layer and the scaling laws in thermal convection. The transport of heat depends on the interplay between the thermal, viscous and integral scales of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 B. Dubrulle

The arrangement of brine above water across a micro porous permeable membrane is used to study high Rayleigh Number($10^{11}- 10^{10}$) high Schmidt number(650)turbulent convection. The flux shows 4/3$^{rd}$ scaling with line plume as the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-06-09 Baburaj A. Puthenveettil , Jaywant H. Arakeri

We report results for the temperature profiles of turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (RBC) in the interior of a cylindrical sample of aspect ratio $\Gamma \equiv D/L = 0.50$ ($D$ and $L$ are the diameter and height respectively).…

Mesoscale convection covers an intermediate scale range between small-scale turbulence and the global organization of the convection flow. It is often characterized by an order of the convection patterns despite very high Rayleigh numbers…

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…

The parameterization of small-scale turbulent fluctuations in convective systems and in the presence of strong stratification is a key issue for many applied problems in oceanography, atmospheric science and planetology. In the presence of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-27 L. Biferale , F. Mantovani , M. Sbragaglia , A. Scagliarini , F. Toschi , R. Tripiccione