Aspect ratio dependence of heat transport by turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection in rectangular cells

DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.363zbMATH Open1275.76036arXiv1207.0174OpenAlexW3101274509MaRDI QIDQ2863404FDOQ2863404

Authors: Quan Zhou, Bofang Liu, Baochang Zhong, Chunmei Li 

Publication date: 21 November 2013

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We report high-precision measurements of the Nusselt number $Nu$ as a function of the Rayleigh number $Ra$ in water-filled rectangular Rayleigh-B'{e}nard convection cells. The horizontal length $L$ and width $W$ of the cells are 50.0 cm and 15.0 cm, respectively, and the heights $H=49.9$, 25.0, 12.5, 6.9, 3.5, and 2.4 cm, corresponding to the aspect ratios $(Gamm{a}_{x}equivL/H,Gamm{a}_{y}equivW/H)=(1,0.3)$, $(2,0.6)$, $(4,1.2)$, $(7.3,2.2)$, $(14.3,4.3)$, and $(20.8,6.3)$. The measurements were carried out over the Rayleigh number range $6imes10^{5}lesssimRalesssim10^{11}$ and the Prandtl number range $5.2lesssimPrlesssim7$. Our results show that for rectangular geometry turbulent heat transport is independent of the cells' aspect ratios and hence is insensitive to the nature and structures of the large-scale mean flows of the system. This is slightly different from the observations in cylindrical cells where $Nu$ is found to be in general a decreasing function of $Gamma$, at least for $Gamma=1$ and larger. Such a difference is probably a manifestation of the finite plate conductivity effect. Corrections for the influence of the finite conductivity of the top and bottom plates are made to obtain the estimates of $N{u}_{infty}$ for plates with perfect conductivity. The local scaling exponents $$ of $$ are calculated and found to increase from 0.243 at $Rasimeq9imes10^5$ to 0.327 at $Rasimeq4imes10^{10}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0174

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zbMATH Keywords

turbulent flowsturbulent convectionBénard convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Convective turbulence (76F35)

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