Transition to the ultimate regime in a radiatively driven convection experiment

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.972MaRDI QIDQ4647422zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

turbulent convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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 $Prgtrsim1$.

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