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We apply a probabilistic clustering method, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), to characterize the largescale dynamics of Rayleigh-B\'enard convection. The method, introduced in Frihat et al. 2021, is applied to a collection of snapshots in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-23 Bérengère Podvin , Laurent Soucasse , François Yvon

A data-driven turbulence model for coarse-grained numerical simulations of two-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection is proposed. The model starts from high-fidelity data and is based on adjusting the Fourier coefficients of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-08 Sagy Ephrati , Paolo Cifani , Bernard Geurts

Rapidly rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection admits a class of exact steady single-mode solutions describing high-amplitude convection cells. Using a matched asymptotic analysis in the high-Rayleigh-number limit, we obtain a rigorous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-08 Gabriel Hadjerci , Shingo Motoki , Genta Kawahara

Flows at planetary scales are generally driven by buoyancy and influenced by rotation. Rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (RRBC) is a practical and simple model that can be used to describe these systems. In RRBC, thermally induced…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-01 Hannah M. Clercx , Rudie P. J. Kunnen

We propose an analytical model to estimate the interface temperature $\Theta_{\Gamma}$ and the Nusselt number $Nu$ for an evaporating two-layer Rayleigh-B\'enard configuration in statistically stationary conditions. The model is based on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-22 Nicoló Scapin , Andreas D. Demou , Luca Brandt

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

Rayleigh-B\'enard cells are one of the simplest systems to explore the laws of natural convection in the highly turbulent limit. However, at very high Rayleigh numbers (Ra > 1E12) and for Prandtl numbers of order one, experiments fall into…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-02-14 Philippe-E. Roche , Frédéric Gauthier , Robert Kaiser , Julien Salort

We have found a multi-scale steady solution of the Boussinesq equations for Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a three-dimensional periodic domain between horizontal plates with a constant temperature difference by using a homotopy from the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-16 Shingo Motoki , Genta Kawahara , Masaki Shimizu

We present a systematic investigation of the effects of roughness geometry on turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (RBC) over rough plates with pyramid-shaped and periodically distributed roughness elements. Using a parameter $\lambda$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-26 Yi-Chao Xie , Ke-Qing Xia

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

Mesoscale convection covers an intermediate scale range between small-scale turbulence and the global organization of the convection flow. It is often characterized by an order of the convection patterns despite very high Rayleigh numbers…

A cascade model is described based on multiplier distributions determined from 3D direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent particle laden flows, which include two-way coupling between the phases at global mass loadings equal to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-30 Robert C. Hogan , Jeffrey N. Cuzzi

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

The heat transfer and flow structure in rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection are strongly influenced by the Rayleigh ($Ra$), Prandtl ($Pr$), and Rossby ($Ro$) number. For $Pr\gtrsim 1$ and intermediate rotation rates, the heat transfer is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-14 Yantao Yang , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse , Richard J. A. M. Stevens

We perform a two-dimensional numerical study on the thermal effect of porous media on global heat transport and flow structure in Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convection, focusing on the role of thermal conductivity $\lambda$ of porous media,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-17 Jun Zhong , Shuang Liu , Chao Sun

We prove stochastic stability of the three-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in the infinite Prandtl number regime for any pair of temperatures maintained on the top and the bottom. Assuming that the non-degenerate random…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Juraj Földes , Armen Shirikyan

Convection in the Sun occurs at Rayleigh numbers, $Ra$, as high as $10^{22}$, molecular Prandtl numbers, $Pr$, as low as $10^{-6}$, under conditions that are far from satisfying the Oberbeck-Boussinesq (OB) idealization. The effects of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-28 Ambrish Pandey , Jörg Schumacher , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

We investigate the large-scale circulation (LSC) in a turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection flow in a cubic closed convection cell by means of direct numerical simulations at a Rayleigh number $Ra=10^6$. The numerical studies are conducted…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-20 Priyanka Maity , Péter Koltai , Jörg Schumacher

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

We present an experimental study of Rayleigh-B\'enard convection using liquid metal alloy gallium-indium-tin as the working fluid with a Prandtl number of $Pr=0.029$. The flow state and the heat transport were measured in a Rayleigh number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-01 Lei Ren , Xin Tao , Lu Zhang , Ming-Jiu Ni , Ke-Qing Xia , Yi-Chao Xie