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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

We report an experimental investigation of turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection in a rectangular cell of large aspect ratio ($\Gamma = 10$) over the Rayleigh number range $5.4\times10^7 \le Ra \le 7.2\times10^9$ and Prandtl number range…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-23 Yi-Zhen Li , Jun-Jie Huo , Xin Chen , Heng-Dong Xi

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

Results from direct numerical simulations for three dimensional Rayleigh-Benard convection in a cylindrical cell of aspect ratio 1/2 and Pr=0.7 are presented. They span five decades of Ra from $2\times 10^6$ to $2 \times10^{11}$. Good…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-12-05 Richard J. A. M. Stevens , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

Direct Numerical Simulations of turbulent convection in a large aspect-ratio box are carried out in the range of Rayleigh number $7 \times 10^4 \le Ra \le 2 \times 10^6$ at Prandtl number Pr=0.71. A strong correlation between the vertical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-09 Arnab K. De , Vinayak Eswaran , Pankaj K. Mishra

We prove the first rigorous bound on the heat transfer for three-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection of finite-Prandtl-number fluids between free-slip boundaries with an imposed heat flux. Using the auxiliary functional method with a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-11 Giovanni Fantuzzi

We investigate the influence of the thermal properties of the boundaries in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection on analytical upper bounds on convective heat transport. We model imperfectly conducting bounding plates in two ways: using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-08-17 Ralf W. Wittenberg

Recent studies of rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection at high rotation rates and strong thermal forcing have shown a significant discrepancy in total heat transport between experiments on a confined cylindrical domain on the one hand and…

Recently, in Zhang et al. (2020), it was found that in rapidly rotating turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard convection (RBC) in slender cylindrical containers (with diameter-to-height aspect ratio $\Gamma=1/2$) filled with a small-Prandtl-number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-01 Xuan Zhang , Robert E. Ecke , Olga Shishkina

The frequency spectra of the entropy and kinetic energy along with the power spectrum of the thermal flux are computed from direct numerical simulations for turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection with uniform rotation about a vertical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-11 Hirdesh K. Pharasi , Krishna Kumar , Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee

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

In this paper, we extend Grossmann and Lohse's (GL) model [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 86}, 3316 (2001)] for the predictions of Reynolds number (Re) and Nusselt number (Nu) in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection (RBC). Towards this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-12 Shashwat Bhattacharya , Mahendra K. Verma , Ravi Samtaney

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

We study the dynamics of thermal and momentum boundary regions in three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of Rayleigh-B\'enard convection for the Rayleigh number range $10^5 \le Ra \le 10^{11}$ and $Pr=0.7$. Using a Cartesian slab…

We report an experimental study of the large-scale circulation (LSC) in a turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection cell with aspect ratio unity. The temperature-extremum-extraction (TEE) method for obtaining the dynamic information of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Quan Zhou , Heng-Dong Xi , Sheng-Qi Zhou , Chao Sun , Ke-Qing Xia

The heat transport and corresponding changes in the large-scale circulation (LSC) in turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection are studied by means of three-dimensional direct numerical simulations as a function of the aspect ratio $\Gamma$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-07 Jorge Bailon-Cuba , Mohammad S. Emran , Joerg Schumacher

Here we summarize the results from our direct numerical simulations (DNS) and experimental measurements on rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) convection. Our experiments and simulations are performed in cylindrical samples with an aspect ratio…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-06-21 Richard J. A. M. Stevens , Herman Clercx , Detlef Lohse

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

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

Two types of spontaneous breaking of the space translational symmetry in distributed chaos have been considered for turbulent thermal convection at large values of Rayleigh number. First type is related to boundaries and second type is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-19 A. Bershadskii