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A challenge in fundamental physics and especially in thermodynamics is to understand emergent order in far-from-equilibrium systems. While at equilibrium, temperature plays the role of a key thermodynamic variable whose uniformity in space…

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A theoretical analysis is carried out to study flow evolution inside the laminar Rayleigh-B\'enard convection system laden with small particles. By describing particle dynamics and particle heat as sources of drag and heat respectively, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-12 Dai Shi

The previous investigation on Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of a dilute classical gas [T. Kita: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. {\bf 75} (2006) 124005] is extended to calculate entropy change of the convective transition with the rigid boundaries. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takafumi Kita

Pattern formation in Rayleigh-Benard convection in a large-aspect-ratio cylinder with a radial ramp in the plate separation is studied analytically and numerically by performing numerical simulations of the Boussinesq equations. A…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. R. Paul , M. C. Cross , P. F. Fischer

We consider the physically relevant fully compressible setting of the Rayleigh Benard problem of a fluid confined between two parallel plates, heated from the bottom, and subjected to the gravitational force. Under suitable restrictions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Eduard Feireisl , Agnieszka Swierczewska-Gwiazda

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

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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Fynn Fromme , Hans Harder , Christine Allen-Blanchette , Sebastian Peitz

Motivated by the need for energetically consistent climate models, the Boussinessq-Coriolis (BC) equations are studied with a focus on the averaged vertical heat transport, ie the Nusselt number. A set of formulae are derived by which…

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Perfectly incompressible materials do not exist in nature but are a useful approximation of several media which can be deformed in non-isothermal processes but undergo very small volume variation. In this paper the linear analysis of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-18 Giuseppe Arnone , Florinda Capone , Roberta De Luca , Giuliana Massa

Using the energy method we investigate the stability of pure conduction in Pearson's model for B\'enard-Marangoni convection in a layer of fluid at infinite Prandtl number. Upon extending the space of admissible perturbations to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-18 Giovanni Fantuzzi , Andrew Wynn

An approach that extends equilibrium thermodynamics principles to out-of-equilibrium systems is based on the local equilibrium hypothesis. However, the validity of the a priori assumption of local equilibrium has been questioned due to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-04 Atanu Chatterjee , Takahiko Ban , Germano Iannacchione

A data-driven turbulence model for coarse-grained numerical simulations of two-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection is proposed. The model starts from high-fidelity data and is based on adjusting the Fourier coefficients of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-08 Sagy Ephrati , Paolo Cifani , Bernard Geurts

In contrast with a large variety of conventional models of thermally driven fluids, we show that the standard Oberbeck--Boussinesq approximation \emph{cannot} be obtained as a singular limit of the Navier--Stokes--Fourier system in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Francesco Fanelli , Eduard Feireisl

A coupled map lattice for convection is proposed, which consists of Eulerian and Lagrangian procedures. Simulations of the model not only reproduce a wide-range of phenomena in Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection experiments but also lead to…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 Tatsuo Yanagita , Kunihiko Kaneko

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

This work studies two-dimensional fixed-flux Rayleigh-B\'enard convection with periodic boundary conditions in both horizontal and vertical directions and analyzes its dynamics using numerical continuation, secondary instability analysis…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-12 Chang Liu , Manjul Sharma , Keith Julien , Edgar Knobloch

We study thermal convection in a rotating fluid in order to better understand the properties of convection zones in rotating stars and planets. We first derive mixing-length theory for rapidly-rotating convection, arriving at the results of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Adrian J. Barker , Adam M. Dempsey , Yoram Lithwick

We apply a continuous data assimilation method to the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system governing the evolution of a compressible, rotating and thermally driven fluid. A rigorous proof of the tracking property is given in the asymptotic regime…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Eduard Feireisl , Wladimir Neves

We numerically investigate turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection within two immiscible fluid layers, aiming to understand how the layer thickness and fluid properties affect the heat transfer (characterized by the Nusselt number $Nu$) in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-24 Hao-Ran Liu , Kai Leong Chong , Rui Yang , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

We investigate the stability and dynamics of natural convection in two dimensions, subject to inhomogeneous boundary conditions. In particular, we consider a Rayleigh-B\`enard (RB) cell, where the horizontal top boundary contains a periodic…

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