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

DOI10.1017/JFM.2011.354MaRDI QIDQ2893752zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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