Prandtl and Rayleigh number dependence of heat transport in high Rayleigh number thermal convection

DOI10.1017/JFM.2011.354zbMATH Open1241.76357arXiv1102.2307OpenAlexW3106342060WikidataQ56990585 ScholiaQ56990585MaRDI QIDQ2893752FDOQ2893752

Authors: Richard J. A. M. Stevens, R. Verzicco, Detlef Lohse 

Publication date: 26 June 2012

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

Abstract: Results from direct numerical simulation for three-dimensional Rayleigh-B'enard convection in samples of aspect ratio $Gamma=0.23$ and $Gamma=0.5$ up to Rayleigh number $Ra=2imes10^{12}$ are presented. The broad range of Prandtl numbers $0.5<Pr<10$ is considered. In contrast to some experiments, we do not see any increase in $Nu/R{a}^{1/3}$, neither due to $Pr$ number effects, nor due to a constant heat flux boundary condition at the bottom plate instead of constant temperature boundary conditions. Even at these very high $Ra$, both the thermal and kinetic boundary layer thicknesses obey Prandtl-Blasius scaling.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2307

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zbMATH Keywords

turbulent convectionturbulence simulationBénard convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Free convection (76R10) Convective turbulence (76F35)

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