Transition to the ultimate regime in a radiatively driven convection experiment

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.972zbMATH Open1415.76307arXiv2010.10936OpenAlexW3105256350WikidataQ128637826 ScholiaQ128637826MaRDI QIDQ4647422FDOQ4647422

Authors: Vincent Bouillaut, Simon Lepot, Basile Gallet, Sébastien Aumaître 

Publication date: 15 January 2019

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

Abstract: We report on the transition between two regimes of heat transport in a radiatively driven convection experiment, where a fluid gets heated up within a tunable heating length $ell$ in the vicinity of the bottom of the tank. The first regime is similar to the one observed in standard Rayleigh-B'enard experiments, the Nusselt number $Nu$ being related to the Rayleigh number $Ra$ through the power-law $NusimR{a}^{1/3}$. The second regime corresponds to the "ultimate" or mixing-length scaling regime of thermal convection, where $Nu$ varies as the square-root of $Ra$. Evidence for these two scaling regimes have been reported in Lepot et al. (Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U S A, {�f 115}, 36, 2018), and we now study in detail how the system transitions from one to the other. We propose a simple model describing radiatively driven convection in the mixing-length regime. corr{It leads to the scaling relation $NusimfracellHP{r}^{1/2}R{a}^{1/2}$,} where $H$ is the height of the cell, thereby allowing us to deduce the values of $Ra$ and $Nu$ at which the system transitions from one regime to the other. These predictions are confirmed by the experimental data gathered at various $Ra$ and $ell$. corr{We conclude by showing that boundary layer corrections can persistently modify the Prandtl number dependence of $Nu$ at large $Ra$, for $Prgtrsim1$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10936

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zbMATH Keywords

turbulent convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Forced convection (76R05) Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Convective turbulence (76F35)

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