Internal heating driven convection at infinite Prandtl number

DOI10.1063/1.3637032zbMATH Open1272.76230arXiv1104.2792OpenAlexW2072699775MaRDI QIDQ2849754FDOQ2849754

Authors: Jared P. Whitehead, Charles R. Doering 

Publication date: 24 September 2013

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We derive an improved rigorous bound on the space and time averaged temperature $<T>$ of an infinite Prandtl number Boussinesq fluid contained between isothermal no-slip boundaries thermally driven by uniform internal heating. A novel approach is used wherein a singular stable stratification is introduced as a perturbation to a non-singular background profile, yielding the estimate $<T>geq0.419[Rlog(R){]}^{-1/4}$ where $R$ is the heat Rayleigh number. The analysis relies on a generalized Hardy-Rellich inequality that is proved in the appendix.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2792

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zbMATH Keywords

generalized Hardy-Rellich inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Forced convection (76R05) Stratification effects in viscous fluids (76D50) Convective turbulence (76F35) Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15)

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