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Energy cascades lie at the heart of the dynamics of turbulent flows. In a recent study of turbulence in fluids with odd-viscosity [de Wit \textit{et al.}, Nature \textbf{627}, 515 (2024)], the two-dimensionalization of the flow at small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-22 Kolluru Venkata Kiran , Dario Vincenzi , Rahul Pandit

We perform Large eddy simulations of turbulent compressible convection in stellar-type convection zones by solving the Navi\'{e}r-Stokes equations in three dimensions. We estimate the extent of penetration into the stable layer above a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Partha S. Pal , Harinder P. Singh , Kwing L. Chan , M. P. Srivastava

The influence of fixed temperature and fixed heat flux thermal boundary conditions on rapidly rotating convection in the plane layer geometry is investigated for the case of stress-free mechanical boundary conditions. It is shown that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Michael A. Calkins , Kevin Hale , Keith Julien , David Nieves , Derek Driggs , Philippe Marti

Very weakly density-stratified, near-homogeneous 'NH' conditions are found in the deep Western Mediterranean Sea. Under these conditions, over vertical ranges of several hundreds of meters water temperature varies only a few 0.0001degrC and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Hans van Haren

We calculate the scalar transport rate, as characterized by the Nusselt number\,($Nu$), from a neutrally buoyant spherical drop in an ambient linear flow, in the absence of inertia and in the strong convection limit. This corresponds to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Sabarish V. Narayanan , Ganesh Subramanian

An experimental and numerical smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) analysis was performed for the convective flow arising from a horizontal, thin cylindrical heat source enclosed in a glycerin-filled, slender enclosure at low Rayleigh…

We present high resolution numerical simulations of convection in multiphase flows (boiling) using a novel algorithm based on a Lattice Boltzmann method. We first validate the thermodynamical and kinematical properties of the algorithm.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 L. Biferale , P. Perlekar , M. Sbragaglia , F. Toschi

Convection of an internally heated fluid, confined between top and bottom plates of equal temperature, is studied by direct numerical simulation in two and three dimensions. The unstably stratified upper region drives convection that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-30 David Goluskin , Erwin P. van der Poel

The response of the nonlinear shallow water equations (SWE) on a sphere to tropical vorticity forcing is examined with an emphasis on momentum fluxes and the emergence of a superrotating (SR) state. Fixing the radiative damping and momentum…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Suhas DL , Jai Sukhatme , Joy M. Monteiro

Convection-driven flows in planetary interiors exhibit rich dynamics owing to multiple spatio-temporally varying forcing conditions and physical constraints. In particular, the churning of liquid metals in the Earth's outer core,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-09 Tirtharaj Barman , Swarandeep Sahoo

This study investigates the role of thermal boundary conditions on natural convection and entropy generation in non-Newtonian power-law fluids confined within a square cavity and a concentric cylindrical annulus. Steady, two-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-14 Lambert Theisen , Satyvir Singh

Rapidly rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection on a $f$-plane at colatitude $\vartheta_f$ is investigated numerically using an asymptotically reduced equation set valid in the limit of very rapid rotation. The equations provide a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-25 Benjamin Miquel , Abram Ellison , Michael A. Calkins , Keith Julien , Edgar Knobloch

Rotating convective turbulence is ubiquitously found across geophysical settings, such as surface and subsurface oceans, planetary atmospheres, molten metal planetary cores, magma chambers, and magma oceans. Depending on the thermal and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-08 Jewel A. Abbate , Jonathan M. Aurnou

Rayleigh-B{\'e}nard convection is investigated with sulfur hexafluoride (SF$_6$) in the vicinity of its critical point. In the supercritical domain, direct measurements of the heat flux $Q$ as a function of the temperature difference…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-12 Valentin Mouet , Guillaume Michel , François Pétrélis , Stephan Fauve

An interesting question in turbulent convection is how the heat transport depends on the strength of thermal forcing in the limit of very large thermal forcing. Kraichnan predicted [Phys. Fluids {\bf 5}, 1374 (1962)] that the heat transport…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Emily S. C. Ching , T. C. Ko

We present results from an asymptotic magnetohydrodynamic model that is suited for studying the rapidly rotating, low viscosity regime typical of the electrically conducting fluid interiors of planets and stars. We show that the presence of…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Stefano Maffei , Michael A. Calkins , Keith Julien , Philippe D. Marti

Motivated by understanding the dynamics of stellar and planetary interiors, we have performed a set of direct numerical simulations of Boussinesq convection in a rotating full sphere. The domain is internally heated with fixed temperature…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yufeng Lin , Andrew Jackson

We simulate numerically convection in a rectangular cell filled with an ideal gas rotating about an axis perpendicular to the direction of gravity. This configuration corresponds to an experiment with a convection cell placed in a rapidly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-27 K. Lüdemann , A. Tilgner

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…

Mean-field dynamo theory suggests that turbulent convection in a rotating layer of electrically-conducting fluid produces a significant alpha-effect, which is one of the key ingredients in any mean-field dynamo model. Provided that this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-06 Benjamin Favier , Paul J. Bushby