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Due to ample applications from medical services to industrial activities, the study of flow and heat transfer through a curved duct has attracted considerable attention to the researchers. In this paper, a comprehensive numerical study is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-02 Selim Hussen , Mohammad Sanjeed Hasan , Mahtab Uddin , Rabindra Nath Mondal

Well-resolved numerical simulations are used to study Rayleigh-B\'enard-Poiseuille flow over an evolving phase boundary for moderate values of P\'eclet ($Pe \in \left[0, 50\right]$) and Rayleigh ($Ra \in \left[2.15 \times 10^3,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-09 S. Toppaladoddi

We provide scaling relations for the Nusselt number $Nu$ and the friction coefficient $C_{S}$ in sheared Rayleigh-B\'enard convection, i.e., in Rayleigh-B\'enard flow with Couette or Poiseuille type shear forcing, by extending the Grossmann…

In this paper we carry out a numerical investigation of forced convection heat transfer from a heated elliptical cylinder in a uniform free stream with angle of inclination $\theta^{\circ}$. Numerical simulations were carried out for $10…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-21 Raghav Singhal , Sailen Dutta , Jiten C. Kalita

Heat transfer in a fluid can be greatly enhanced by natural convection, giving rise to the nuanced relationship between the Nusselt number and Rayleigh number that has been a focus of modern fluid dynamics. Our work explores convection in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-24 Yuejia Zhang , Nicholas J. Moore , Jinzi Mac Huang

Internally heated convection involves the transfer of heat by fluid motion between a distribution of sources and sinks. Focusing on the balanced case where the total heat added by the sources matches the heat taken away by the sinks, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Binglin Song , Giovanni Fantuzzi , Ian Tobasco

We report the results of high resolution direct numerical simulations of two-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection for Rayleigh numbers up to $\Ra=10^{10}$ in order to study the influence of temperature boundary conditions on turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hans Johnston , Charles R. Doering

The Rayleigh number $Ra$ dependence of the Nusselt number $Nu$ in turbulent Rayleigh--B\'enard convection is numerically investigated for a moderate and low Prandtl number, $Pr=0.7$ and $0.021$, respectively. Here we specifically address…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-18 Marten Klein , Heiko Schmidt

This study derives a scaling law connecting the Nusselt (Nu) and Bejan (Be) numbers in natural convection. Combining entropy generation analysis with boundary-layer scaling, the relation Be^-1 - 1 = a Nu^b naturally emerges without explicit…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Takuya Masuda , Toshio Tagawa

The direct numerical simulation of compressible fully developed turbulent Couette flow between two parallel plates with equal temperatures moving in opposite directions with some velocity was performed. The algorithm was tested on well…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. A. Skovorodko

The geostrophic turbulence in rapidly rotating thermal convection exhibits characteristics shared by many highly turbulent geophysical and astrophysical flows. In this regime, the convective length and velocity scales, heat flux, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-01 Jiaxing Song , Olga Shishkina , Xiaojue Zhu

Here we summarize the results from our direct numerical simulations (DNS) and experimental measurements on rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convection. Our experiments and simulations are performed in cylindrical samples with an aspect ratio…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-06-21 Richard J. A. M. Stevens , Herman Clercx , Detlef Lohse

Direct numerical simulations are performed of turbulent forced convection in a half channel flow with wall oscillating either as a spanwise plane oscillation or to generate a streamwise travelling wave. The friction Reynolds number is fixed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-14 Amirreza Rouhi , Marcus Hultmark , Alexander J. Smits

The mean vertical heat transport $\langle wT \rangle$ in convection between isothermal plates driven by uniform internal heating is investigated by means of rigorous bounds. These are obtained as a function of the Rayleigh number $R$ by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-01 Ali Arslan , Giovanni Fantuzzi , John Craske , Andrew Wynn

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 perform a numerical study of the heat transfer and flow structure of Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convection in (in most cases regular) porous media, which are comprised of circular, solid obstacles located on a square lattice. This study is…

This study explores heat and turbulent modulation in three-dimensional multiphase Rayleigh-B\'enard convection using direct numerical simulations. Two immiscible fluids with identical reference density undergo systematic variations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-26 Abbas Moradi Bilondi , Nicolò Scapin , Luca Brandt , Parisa Mirbod

The dynamics of heat transfer in a model system of Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convection reduced to its essential, here dubbed Burgers-Rayleigh-B\'enard (BRB), is studied. The system is spatially one-dimensional, the flow field is compressible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-04 Enrico Calzavarini , Silvia C. Hirata

We present a systematic investigation of the effects of roughness geometry on turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (RBC) over rough plates with pyramid-shaped and periodically distributed roughness elements. Using a parameter $\lambda$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-26 Yi-Chao Xie , Ke-Qing Xia

We simulate thermal convection in a two-dimensional square box using the no-slip condition on all boundaries, and isothermal bottom and top walls and adiabatic sidewalls. We choose 0.1 and 1 for the Prandtl number $Pr$ and vary the Rayleigh…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-23 Ambrish Pandey , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan