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By tailoring the geometry of the upper boundary in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection we manipulate the boundary layer -- interior flow interaction, and examine the heat transport using the Lattice Boltzmann method. For fixed amplitude…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-14 Srikanth Toppaladoddi , Sauro Succi , John S. Wettlaufer

We studied flow organization and heat transfer properties in mixed turbulent convection within Poiseuille-Rayleigh-B\'enard channels subjected to temporally modulated sinusoidal wall temperatures. Three-dimensional direct numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-12 Ao Xu , Rui-Qi Li , Heng-Dong Xi

Heat and momentum transfer in wall-bounded turbulent flow, coupled with the effects of wall-roughness, is one of the outstanding questions in turbulence research. In the standard Rayleigh-B\'enard problem for natural thermal convection, it…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-05 Michael MacDonald , Nicholas Hutchins , Detlef Lohse , Daniel Chung

We study numerically the melting of a horizontal layer of a pure solid above a convecting layer of its fluid rotating about the vertical axis. In the rotating regime studied here, with Rayleigh numbers of order $10^7$, convection takes the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-13 S. Ravichandran , J. S. Wettlaufer

Broad theoretical arguments are proposed to show, formally, that the magnitude G of the temperature gradients in turbulent thermal convection at high Rayleigh numbers obeys the same advection-diffusion equation that governs the temperature…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-11 K. R. Sreenivasan , A. Bershadskii , J. J. Niemela

The linear stability threshold of the Rayleigh-Benard configuration is analyzed with compressible effects taken into account. It is assumed that the fluid obeys a Newtonian rheology and Fourier's law of thermal transport with constant,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-05 Thierry Alboussiere , Yanick Ricard

The phenomenon of irregular cessation and subsequent reversal of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection is theoretically analysed. The force and thermal balance on a single plume detached from the thermal…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Francisco Fontenele Araujo , S. Grossmann , D. Lohse

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

Measurements of the Nusselt number $Nu$ and of temperature variations $\Delta T_b$ in the bulk fluid are reported for turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of a cylindrical sample. They cover the Rayleigh-number range $10^{9} \alt Ra \alt…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-04-17 Denis Funfschilling , Eberhard Bodenschatz , Guenter Ahlers

Turbulent convection systems are known to give rise to prominent large scale circulation. At the same time, the `background' (or `small-scale') turbulence is also highly relevant and e.g. carries the majority of the heat transport in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-18 Pieter Berghout , Woutijn Johannes Baars , Dominik Krug

Thermal convection of fluid is a more efficient way than diffusion to carry heat from hot sources to cold places. Here, we experimentally study the Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of aqueous glycerol solution in a cubic cell with suspensions…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-14 Shi-Yuan Hu , Kai-Zhe Wang , Lai-Bing Jia , Jin-Qiang Zhong , Jun Zhang

Rayleigh-Benard convection in a cylindrical container can take on many different spatial forms. Motivated by the results of Hof, Lucas and Mullin [Phys. Fluids 11, 2815 (1999)], who observed coexistence of several stable states at a single…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-04-02 Katarayna Borońska , Laurette S. Tuckerman

Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in rotating spherical shells can be considered as a simplified analogue of many astrophysical and geophysical fluid flows. Here, we use three-dimensional direct numerical simulations to study this physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-23 T. Gastine , J. Wicht , J. Aubert

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

In this paper, we show the existence of H\"{o}lder continuous periodic weak solutions of the 3D Boussinesq equation with thermal diffusion, which apprroximate the Onsager's critical spatial regularity and satisfy the prescribed kinetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Zipeng Chen , Zhaoyang Yin

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…

A parametric instability of an incompressible, viscous, and Boussinesq fluid layer bounded between two parallel planes is investigated numerically. The layer is assumed to be inclined at an angle with horizontal. The planes bounding the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-01 Jitender Singh

Thermal convection driven by internal heat sources and sinks was recently shown experimentally to exhibit the mixing-length, or "ultimate", scaling-regime: the Nusselt number $Nu$ (dimensionless heat flux) increases as the square-root of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-23 B. Miquel , S. Lepot , V. Bouillaut , B. Gallet

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…

Latitudinal variations in turbulent heat flux play a key role in the thermal and magnetic evolution of rapidly rotating planets and stars. Although global spherical-shell simulations have documented such variations, explicit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Veeraraghavan Kannan , Varghese Mathai , Xiaojue Zhu