New results in the variational approach to turbulent Boussinesq convection

DOI10.1063/1.1327295zbMATH Open1184.76277OpenAlexW1987560418MaRDI QIDQ3555337FDOQ3555337

Authors: Rich R. Kerswell 

Publication date: 22 April 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1327295

zbMATH Keywords

entropyheat transferturbulencevariational techniquesBénard convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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• Bounds for convection between rough boundaries
• Exhausting the background approach for bounding the heat transport in Rayleigh–Bénard convection
• Bounds on dissipation for Navier-Stokes flow with Kolmogorov forcing
• Bounds on Rayleigh-Bénard convection with imperfectly conducting plates
• Absence of subcritical instabilities and global nonlinear stability for porous ternary diffusive-convective fluid mixtures
• Multicomponent diffusive-convective fluid motions in porous layers: Ultimately boundedness, absence of subcritical instabilities, and global nonlinear stability for any number of salts
• Heat transport by coherent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
• Heat and mass transfer by convection in multicomponent Navier-Stokes mixtures: absence of subcritical instabilities and global nonlinear stability via the Auxiliary System Method
• Optimum fields and bounds on heat transport for nonlinear convection in rapidly rotating fluid layer
• Conservative bounds on Rayleigh-Bénard convection with mixed thermal boundary conditions
• Improved bounds on horizontal convection
• Maximal mixing rate in turbulent stably stratified Couette flow
• Numerical upper bounds on convective heat transport in a layer of fluid of finite Prandtl number: Confirmation of Howard’s analytical asymptotic single-wave-number bound
• A rigorous bound on the scaling of dissipation with velocity amplitude in flow past a sphere
• Large Rayleigh number thermal convection: Heat flux predictions and strongly nonlinear solutions
• Optimal heat transfer enhancement in plane Couette flow
• Maximal heat transfer between two parallel plates
• Bounds for rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection at large Prandtl number

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