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A model for three-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection in low-Prandtl-number fluids near onset with rigid horizontal boundaries in the presence of a uniform vertical magnetic field is constructed and analyzed in detail. The kinetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-28 Arnab Basak , Krishna Kumar

We report heat transfer and temperature profile measurements in laboratory experiments of rapidly rotating convection in water under intense thermal forcing (Rayleigh number $Ra$ as high as $\sim 10^{13}$) and unprecedentedly strong…

Rayleigh-Benard convection in a rotating spherical shell provides a simplified model for convective dynamics of planetary and stellar interiors. In this study, we build more than 200 numerical models of rotating convection in a spherical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-14 Wei Fan , Qi Wang , Yufeng Lin

We analyzed the performance of Convolutional Autoencoders in generating reduced-order representations the temperature field of 2D Rayleigh-B\'enard flows at $Pr=1$ and Rayleigh numbers extending from $10^6$ to $10^8$, capturing the range…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-22 Melisa Y. Vinograd , Patricio Clark di Leoni

The heat transport in rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection is considered in the limit of rapid rotation (small Ekman number $E$) and strong thermal forcing (large Rayleigh number $Ra$). The analysis proceeds from a set of asymptotically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ian Grooms , Jared P Whitehead

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…

We investigate the structures of the near-plate velocity and temperature profiles at different horizontal positions along the conducting bottom (and top) plate of a Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection cell, using two-dimensional (2D) numerical…

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…

Two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) Rayleigh-B\'enard convection is compared using results from direct numerical simulations and prior experiments. The explored phase diagrams for both cases are reviewed. The differences and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-06 Erwin P. van der Poel , Richard J. A. M. Stevens , Detlef Lohse

Horizontally extended turbulent convection, termed mesoscale convection in natural systems, remains a challenge to investigate in both experiments and simulations. This is particularly so for very low molecular Prandtl numbers as in stellar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-09 Ambrish Pandey , Dmitry Krasnov , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan , Jörg Schumacher

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

A detailed study of the Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in two-dimensions with free-slip boundaries is presented. Pseudo-spectral method has been used to numerically solve the system for Rayleigh number up to $3.3 \times 10^7$. The system…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-04-21 Supriyo Paul , Pankaj K. Mishra , Mahendra K. Verma , Krishna Kumar

We study the influence of thermal boundary conditions on large aspect ratio Rayleigh-B\'enard convection by a joint analysis of experimental and numerical data sets for a Prandl number $\mathrm{Pr = 7}$ and Rayleigh numbers $\mathrm{Ra =…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-15 Theo Käufer , Philipp P. Vieweg , Jörg Schumacher , Christian Cierpka

We numerically investigate turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection with gas bubbles attached to the hot plate, mimicking a core feature in electrolysis, catalysis, or boiling. The existence of bubbles on the plate reduces the global heat…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-17 Hao-Ran Liu , Kai Leong Chong , Rui Yang , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

We revisit the optimal heat transport problem for Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in which a rigorous upper bound on the Nusselt number, $Nu$, is sought as a function of the Rayleigh number $Ra$. Concentrating on the 2-dimensional problem with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-11 Zijing Ding , Rich R Kerswell

We present three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a closed rectangular box whose width $L_y$ and length $L_x$ are 0.8 and 2.4 times the height $H$, respectively. The Rayleigh number $Ra$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ambrish Pandey , Jörg Schumacher , Matteo Parsani , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Temperature and velocity oscillations have been found in a rectangular Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection cell, in which one large scale convection roll exists. At $Ra=8.9 \times 10^{11}$ and $Pr=4$, temperature oscillation can be observed in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sheng-Qi Zhou , Chao Sun , Ke-Qing Xia

We report pore-scale statistical properties of temperature and thermal energy dissipation rate in a two-dimensional porous Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) cell. High-resolution direct numerical simulations were carried out for the fixed Rayleigh…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-20 Ao Xu , Ben-Rui Xu , Heng-Dong Xi

We present a systematic experimental study of geometric and statistical properties of thermal plumes in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection using the thermochromic-liquid-crystal (TLC) technique. The experiments were performed in three…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 Quan Zhou , Ke-Qing Xia

In this study we consider the effect of a horizontal magnetic field on the Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a finite liquid metal layer contained in a cuboid vessel (200 \times 200 \times 40 mm^3). Laboratory experiments are performed for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-07 J. C. Yang , T. Vogt , S. Eckert