Similarities between characteristics of convective turbulence in confined and extended domains

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2022.133537MaRDI QIDQ2104203zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ambrish Pandey, Dmitry Krasnov, Jörg Schumacher, R. Samtaney, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Publication date 9 December 2022

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09713

zbMATH Keywords

probability density functionvariable Prandtl numbertemperature fluctuationaspect ratio effectcylindrical convection cellhigh Rayleigh number convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical turbulence modeling (76F55) Diffusive and convective heat and mass transfer, heat flow (80A19) Convective turbulence (76F35)

Abstract: To understand turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers typical of natural phenomena, computational studies in slender cells are an option if the needed resources have to be optimized within available limits. However, the accompanying horizontal confinement affects some properties of the flow. Here, we explore the characteristics of turbulent fluctuations in the velocity and temperature fields in a cylindrical convection cell of aspect ratio 0.1 by varying the Prandtl number $Pr$ between 0.1 and 200 at a fixed Rayleigh number $Ra=3imes10^{10}$, and find that the fluctuations weaken with increasing $Pr$, quantitatively as in aspect ratio 25. The probability density function (PDF) of temperature fluctuations in the bulk region of the slender cell remains mostly Gaussian, but increasing departures occur as $Pr$ increases beyond unity. We assess the intermittency of the velocity field by computing the PDFs of velocity derivatives and of the kinetic energy dissipation rate, and find increasing intermittency as $Pr$ decreases. In the bulk region of convection, a common result applicable to the slender cell, large aspect ratio cells, as well as in 2D convection, is that the turbulent Prandtl number decreases as $P{r}^{-1/3}$.

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