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Flow reversals are rarely observed in low-Prandtl-number liquid metal convection due to the fluid's exceptionally high thermal diffusivity. Here, we demonstrate that an external transverse magnetic field can induce such reversals in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-11 Yan-Wu Cao , Ming-Zhu Ai , Long Chen , Juan-Cheng Yang , Ming-Jiu Ni

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 perform direct numerical simulations of rotating Rayleigh--B\'enard convection of fluids with low ($Pr=0.1$) and high ($Pr=5$) Prandtl numbers in a horizontally periodic layer with no-slip top and bottom boundaries. At both Prandtl…

We report experimental results for heat-transport measurements, in the form of the Nusselt number \Nu, by turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a cylindrical sample of aspect ratio $\Gamma \equiv D/L = 0.50$ ($D = 1.12$ m is the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Guenter Ahlers , Xiaozhou He , Denis Funfschilling , Eberhard Bodenschatz

We report on a three-dimensional direct numerical simulation study of flow structure and heat transport in the annular centrifugal Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection (ACRBC) system, with cold inner and hot outer cylinders corotating axially,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-09 Dongpu Wang , Hechuan Jiang , Shuang Liu , Xiaojue Zhu , Chao Sun

The central open question about Rayleigh--B\'enard convection -- buoyancy-driven flow in a fluid layer heated from below and cooled from above -- is how vertical heat flux depends on the imposed temperature gradient in the strongly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-10 Baole Wen , David Goluskin , Charles R. Doering

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

Boiling is an extremely effective way to promote heat transfer from a hot surface to a liquid due to several mechanisms many of which are not understood in quantitative detail. An important component of the overall process is that the…

Penetrative turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection which depends on the density maximum of water near $4^\circ\rm{C}$ is studied using two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) direct numerical simulations (DNS). The working fluid is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-26 Qi Wang , Quan Zhou , Zhen-Hua Wan , De-Jun Sun

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 effect of a homogeneous magnetic field on surface-tension-driven B\'{e}nard convection is studied by means of direct numerical simulations. The flow is computed in a rectangular domain with periodic horizontal boundary conditions and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-23 Thomas Boeck

In this numerical study on two-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection we consider $10^7 \leq Ra \leq 10^{12}$ in aspect ratio $0.23 \leq \Gamma \leq 13$ samples. We focus on several cases. First we consider small aspect ratio cells, where…

A Rayleigh B\'enard instability study using the energy conserving dissipative particle dynamics method is presented here for the first time. The simulation is performed on an ideal dissipative particle dynamics fluid in a three dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-19 Anuj Chaudhri , Jennifer R. Lukes

For rapidly rotating turbulent Rayleigh--B\'enard convection in a slender cylindrical cell, experiments and direct numerical simulations reveal a boundary zonal flow (BZF) that replaces the classical large-scale circulation. The BZF is…

We present mesoscale numerical simulations of Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection in a two-dimensional concentrated emulsion, confined between two parallel walls, heated from below and cooled from above, under the effect of buoyancy forces. The…

The non-hydrostatic, quasigeostrophic approximation for rapidly rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection admits a class of exact `single mode' solutions. These solutions correspond to steady laminar convection with a separable structure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ian Grooms

We consider rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of a fluid with a Prandtl number of $Pr = 0.8$ in a cylindrical cell with an aspect ratio $\Gamma = 1/2$. Direct numerical simulations were performed for the Rayleigh number range $10^5 \leq…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Susanne Horn , Olga Shishkina

Turbulent superstructures, i.e. large-scale flow structures in turbulent flows, play a crucial role in many geo- and astrophysical settings. In turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection, for example, horizontally extended coherent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-30 Gerrit Green , Dimitar G. Vlaykov , Juan Pedro Mellado , Michael Wilczek

Weakly-rotating turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection was studied experimentally and numerically. With increasing rotation and large enough Rayleigh number an abrupt transition from a turbulent state with nearly rotation-independent heat…

We present a numerical study of Rayleigh-B\'enard convection disturbed by a longitudinal wind. Our results show that under the action of the wind, the vertical heat flux through the cell initially decreases, due to the mechanism of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrea Scagliarini , Armann Gylfason , Federico Toschi