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Horizontally-periodic Boussinesq Rayleigh-B\'enard Convection (RBC) is a simple model system to study the formation of large-scale structures in turbulent convective flows. We performed a suite of 2D numerical simulations of RBC between…

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Numerous study on natural and man made systems including rotating convection report the phenomena of supercritical and subcritical transitions from one state to another with the variation of relevant control parameters. However, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-01 Sutapa Mandal , Snehashish Sarkar , Pinaki Pal

The research is devoted to the stability of convective flow in a nonuniformly rotating layer of an electrically conducting fluid in a spiral magnetic field. The stationary and oscillatory modes of magnetic convection are considered…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 M. I. Kopp , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

Turbulent thermal convection governs heat transport in systems ranging from stellar interiors to industrial heat exchangers. Two-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection serves as a paradigm for these flows, reproducing key features such as…

In this work, we investigate the presence and impact of stable eigenmodes in Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection that arises due to a temperature gradient within a fluid system. The nonlinear evolution of the canonical convection system is cast…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-29 Zachary R. Williams , Ava G. Lowe

Reservoir computing is applied to model the large-scale evolution and the resulting low-order turbulence statistics of a two-dimensional turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection flow at a Rayleigh number ${\rm Ra}=10^7$ and a Prandtl number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-25 Sandeep Pandey , Jörg Schumacher

We consider convection in an internally heated layer of fluid that is bounded below by a perfect insulator and above by a poor conductor. The poorly conducting boundary is modelled by a fixed heat flux. Using solely analytical methods, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-30 David Goluskin

Anelastic convection at high Rayleigh number in a plane parallel layer with no slip boundaries is considered. Energy and entropy balance equations are derived, and they are used to develop scaling laws for the heat transport and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Chris A. Jones , Krzysztof A. Mizerski , Mouloud Kessar

In turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection one seeks the relationship between the heat transport, captured by the Nusselt number, and the temperature drop across the convecting layer, captured by Rayleigh number. In experiments, one measures…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-23 Scott Weady , Sahil Agarwal , Larry Wilen , John Wettlaufer

The dynamics of Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence convection in presence of an alternating, time periodic acceleration is studied by means of extensive direct numerical simulations of the Boussinesq equations. Within this framework, we discover a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-27 G. Boffetta , M. Magnani , S. Musacchio

We investigate the effect of inertial particles on Rayleigh-B\'enard convection using weakly nonlinear stability analysis. In the presence of nonlinear effects, we study the limiting value of growth of instabilities by deriving a cubic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-20 Thota Srinivas , Gaurav Tomar

We have found a multi-scale steady solution of the Boussinesq equations for Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a three-dimensional periodic domain between horizontal plates with a constant temperature difference by using a homotopy from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-16 Shingo Motoki , Genta Kawahara , Masaki Shimizu

Turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection is often modelled with a constant surface temperature. However, the surface temperature of many geophysical systems, such as lakes, is coupled to the atmospheric forcing. In this paper, we account…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-14 Jason Olsthoorn

Asymptotically large Reynolds number hydrodynamic turbulence is characterized by multi-scaling of moments of velocity increments and spatial derivatives. With decreasing Reynolds number toward $R_{\lambda}=R^{tr}_{\lambda}\approx 9.0$, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-22 Victor Yakhot

Motivated by geological carbon dioxide (CO$_2$) storage, many recent studies have investigated the fluid dynamics of solutal convection in porous media. Here we study the convective dissolution of CO$_2$ in a closed system, where the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-09 Baole Wen , Daria Ahkbari , Li Zhang , Marc A. Hesse

Condensing atmospheric water vapor on surfaces is a sustainable approach to potentially address the potable water crisis. However, despite extensive research, a key question remains: what is the physical mechanism governing the condensation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-31 Tibin M. Thomas , Pallab Sinha Mahapatra , Ranjan Ganguly , Manish K. Tiwari

The analysis of the Rayleigh-B\'enard instability due to the mass diffusion in a fluid-saturated horizontal porous layer is reconsidered. The standard diffusion theory based on the variance of the molecular position growing linearly in time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-28 Antonio Barletta

Atmospheric convection is an essential aspect of atmospheric movement, and it is a source of errors in Climate Models. Being able to generate approximate limit formulas and compare the estimations they produce, could give a way to reduce…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-09 C. V. Valencia-Negrete , C. Gay-García , A. A. Carsteanu

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

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…

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