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

DOI10.1017/JFM.2012.363MaRDI QIDQ2863404zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

turbulent flowsturbulent convectionBénard convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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 $Rasimeq4imes10^{10}$.

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