Maximal heat transfer between two parallel plates

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.557MaRDI QIDQ4585948zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Shingo Motoki, Genta Kawahara, Masaki Shimizu

Publication date 11 September 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04588

zbMATH Keywords

Bénard convectionmixing enhancementvariational method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Forced convection (76R05)

Abstract: The divergence-free time-independent velocity vector field has been determined so as to maximise heat transfer between two parallel plates of a constant temperature difference under the constraint of fixed total enstrophy. The present variational problem is the same as that first formulated by Hassanzadeh $itetal$. (2014); however, a search range of optimal states has been extended to a three-dimensional velocity field. The scaling of the Nusselt number $Nu$ with the P'eclet number $Pe$ (i.e., the square root of the non-dimensionalised enstrophy with thermal diffusion timescale), $NusimP{e}^{2/3}$, has been found in the three-dimensional optimal states, corresponding to the asymptotic scaling with the Rayleigh number $Ra$, $NusimR{a}^{1/2}$, in extremely-high-$Ra$ convective turbulence, and thus to the Taylor energy dissipation law in high-Reynolds-number turbulence. At $Pesim10^0$, a two-dimensional array of large-scale convection rolls provides maximal heat transfer. A three-dimensional optimal solution emerges from bifurcation on the two-dimensional solution branch at higher $Pe$. At $Pegtrsim10^3$, the optimised velocity fields consist of convection cells with hierarchical self-similar vortical structures, and the temperature fields exhibit a logarithmic mean profile near the walls.

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