Laminar boundary layers in convective heat transport

DOI10.1007/S00220-013-1826-7zbMATH Open1339.35249arXiv1212.2940OpenAlexW3103065003MaRDI QIDQ387644FDOQ387644

Authors: Christian Seis 

Publication date: 23 December 2013

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study Rayleigh-Benard convection in the high-Rayleigh-number and high-Prandtl-number regime, i.e., we consider a fluid in a container that is exposed to strong heating of the bottom and cooling of the top plate in the absence of inertia effects. While the dynamics in the bulk are characterized by a chaotic convective heat flow, the boundary layers at the horizontal container plates are essentially conducting and thus the fluid is motionless. Consequently, the average temperature exhibits a linear profile in the boundary layers. In this article, we rigorously investigate the average temperature and oscillations in the boundary layer via local bounds on the temperature field. Moreover, we deduce that the temperature profile is indeed essentially linear close to the horizontal container plates. Our results are uniform in the system parameters (e.g. the Rayleigh number) up to logarithmic correction terms. An important tool in our analysis is a new Hardy-type estimate for the convecting velocity field, which can be used to control the fluid motion in the layer. The bounds on the temperature field are derived with the help of local maximal regularity estimates for convection-diffusion equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2940

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Free convection (76R10) Diffusion (76R50) PDEs in connection with classical thermodynamics and heat transfer (35Q79)

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