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Rayleigh-B{\'e}nard convection is investigated with sulfur hexafluoride (SF$_6$) in the vicinity of its critical point. In the supercritical domain, direct measurements of the heat flux $Q$ as a function of the temperature difference…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-12 Valentin Mouet , Guillaume Michel , François Pétrélis , Stephan Fauve

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

In Rayleigh-Benard convection and Taylor-Couette flow cellular patterns emerge at the onset of instability and persist as large-scale coherent structures in the turbulent regime. Their long-term dynamics has been thoroughly characterised…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-26 Daniel Feldmann , Marc Avila

We numerically study the Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convection in two-dimensional model emulsions confined between two parallel walls at fixed temperatures. The systems under study are heterogeneous, with finite-size droplets dispersed in a…

The large-scale flow structure and the turbulent transfer of heat and momentum are directly measured in highly turbulent liquid metal convection experiments for Rayleigh numbers varied between $4 \times 10^5$ and $\leq 5 \times 10^9$ and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-04 Felix Schindler , Sven Eckert , Till Zürner , Jörg Schumacher , Tobias Vogt

We report experimental results for the influence of a tilt angle beta relative to gravity on turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection of cylindrical samples. The measurements were made at Rayleigh numbers R up to 10^11 with two samples of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guenter Ahlers , Eric Brown , Alexei Nikolaenko

The boundary layer structure of the velocity and temperature fields in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard flows in closed cylindrical cells of unit aspect ratio is revisited from a transitional and turbulent viscous boundary layer perspective. When…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-30 Jörg Schumacher , Vinodh Bandaru , Ambrish Pandey , Janet D. Scheel

This study numerically investigates two-dimensional Rayleigh-Benard convection subjected to horizontal oscillation of the bottom plate, with Prandtl number Pr=4.3, Rayleigh numbers Ra ranging from 5e6 to 1e8, and oscillation frequencies f…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-16 YaLin Zhu , Jian-Chao He , Xi Chen

We consider stability of steady convective flows in a horizontal layer with stress-free boundaries, heated below and rotating about the vertical axis, in the Boussinesq approximation (the Rayleigh-Benard convection). The flows under…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 O. M. Podvigina

Computational codes for direct numerical simulations of Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convection are compared in terms of computational cost and quality of the solution. As a benchmark case, RB convection at $Ra=10^8$ and $Pr=1$ in a periodic…

Many geophysical and astrophysical phenomena are driven by turbulent fluid dynamics, containing behaviors separated by tens of orders of magnitude in scale. While direct simulations have made large strides toward understanding geophysical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-10 Jonathan S Cheng , Jonathan M Aurnou , Keith Julien , Rudie P J Kunnen

Buoyancy-induced (Rayleigh-Benard) convection of a fluid between two horizontal plates is a central paradigm for studying the transition to complex spatiotemporal dynamics in sustained nonequilibrium systems. To improve the analysis of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. Lai , K. H. Chiam , M. C. Cross , H. S. Greenside

Rayleigh--B\'enard (RB) convection, the flow in a fluid layer heated from below and cooled from above, is used to analyze the transition to the geostrophic regime of thermal convection. In the geostrophic regime, which is of direct…

We numerically simulate three-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection, the flow in a fluid layer heated from below and cooled from above, with inhomogeneous temperature boundary conditions to explore two distinct regimes described in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-28 Rodolfo Ostilla-Monico , Amit Amritkar

Direct numerical simulations are employed to reveal three distinctly different flow regions in rotating spherical Rayleigh-B\'enard convection. In the low-latitude region $\mathrm{I}$ vertical (parallel to the axis of rotation) convective…

We report on the transition between two regimes of heat transport in a radiatively driven convection experiment, where a fluid gets heated up within a tunable heating length $\ell$ in the vicinity of the bottom of the tank. The first regime…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-22 V. Bouillaut , S. Lepot , S. Aumaître , B. Gallet

Vertical convection is the fluid motion that is induced by the heating and cooling of two opposed vertical boundaries of a rectangular cavity (see e.g. Wang et al. 2021). We consider the linear stability of the steady two-dimensional flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-14 Arman Khoubani , Ashwin Vishnu Mohanan , Pierre Augier , Jan-Bert Flór

Moist convection is a physical process where the latent heat released by condensation acts as a buoyancy source that can enhance or even trigger an overturning convective instability. Since the saturation temperature often decreases with…

Previous numerical studies on homogeneous Rayleigh-B\'enard convection, which is Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (RBC) without walls, and therefore without boundary layers, have revealed a scaling regime that is consistent with theoretical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-22 Chong Shen Ng , Andrew Ooi , Detlef Lohse , Daniel Chung

We create a highly controlled lab environment-accessible to both global and local monitoring-to analyse turbulent boiling flows and in particular their shear stress in a statistically stationary state. Namely, by precisely monitoring the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Rodrigo Ezeta , Dennis Bakhuis , Sander G. Huisman , Chao Sun , Detlef Lohse