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Two-phase turbulent Taylor-Couette (TC) flow is simulated using an Euler-Lagrange approach to study the effects of a secondary phase dispersed into a turbulent carrier phase (here bubbles dispersed into water). The dynamics of the carrier…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-14 Vamsi Spandan , Rodolfo Ostilla-Monico , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

We investigate the large-scale circulation (LSC) of turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a large box of aspect ratio $\Gamma =32$ for Rayleigh numbers up to $Ra=10^9$ and at a fixed Prandtl number $Pr=1$. A conditional averaging…

Rayleigh-Benard convection (RBC) is a canonical system for buoyancy-driven turbulence and heat transport, central to geophysical and industrial flows. Developing efficient control strategies remains challenging at high Rayleigh numbers,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-12 Qiwei Chen , C. Ricardo Constante-Amores

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

Using direct numerical simulations, we study rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a cylindrical cell for a broad range of Rayleigh, Ekman, and Prandtl numbers from the onset of wall modes to the geostrophic regime, an extremely…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-14 Robert E. Ecke , Xuan Zhang , Olga Shishkina

Rayleigh--B\'enard convection, which is the buoyancy-induced motion of a fluid enclosed between two horizontal plates, is an idealised setup to study thermal convection. We analyse the modes that transport the most heat between the plates…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-26 Johannes Lülff

The flow structure of strongly turbulent Taylor-Couette flow with Reynolds numbers up to Re_i = 2*10^6 of the inner cylinder is experimentally examined with high-speed particle image velocimetry (PIV). The wind Reynolds numbers Re_w of the…

Axisymmetric direct numerical simulations are carried out to study the hydrodynamics of a laminar, stationary, incompressible, Newtonian, single-phase flow in an Annular Plane Couette (APC) channel. This configuration is that of a Straight…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-13 Rémi Macadré , Olivier C Masbernat , Frederic Risso , Roel Belt

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…

We use experiments and direct numerical simulations to probe the phase-space of low-curvature Taylor--Couette (TC) flow in the vicinity of the ultimate regime. The cylinder radius ratio is fixed at $\eta=r_i/r_o=0.91$. Non-dimensional shear…

Turbulent superstructures in horizontally extended three-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection flows are investigated in controlled laboratory experiments in water at Prandtl number $Pr = 7$. A Rayleigh-B\'enard cell with square…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-03 Sebastian Moller , Theo Käufer , Ambrish Pandey , Jörg Schumacher , Christian Cierpka

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

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 report an experimental investigation of the longitudinal space-time cross-correlation function of the velocity field, $C(r,\tau)$, in a cylindrical turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection cell using the particle image velocimetry (PIV)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Quan Zhou , Chun-Mei Li , Zhi-Ming Lu , Yu-Lu Liu

Thermal convection is ubiquitous in nature as well as in many industrial applications. The identification of effective control strategies to, e.g., suppress or enhance the convective heat exchange under fixed external thermal gradients is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-04 Gerben Beintema , Alessandro Corbetta , Luca Biferale , Federico Toschi

The main objective of this article is part of a research program to link the dynamics of fluid flows with the structure and its transitions in the physical spaces. As a prototype of problem and to demonstrate the main ideas, we study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-14 Tian Ma , Shouhong Wang

We discuss two aspects of turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection (RBC) on the basis of high-resolution direct numerical simulations in a unique setting; a closed cylindrical cell of aspect ratio of one. First, we present a comprehensive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-29 Janet D. Scheel , Jörg Schumacher

Our understanding of the material organization of complex fluid flows has recently benefited from mathematical developments in the theory of objective coherent structures. These methods have provided a wealth of approaches that identify…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-14 Nikolas Aksamit , Robert Hartmann , Detlef Lohse , George Haller

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…

Solid state convection can take place in the rocky or icy mantles of planetary objects and these mantles can be surrounded above or below or both by molten layers of similar composition. A flow toward the interface can proceed through it by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-23 Stéphane Labrosse , Adrien Morison , Renaud Deguen , Thierry Alboussière