From laminar plumes to organized flows: the onset of large-scale circulation in turbulent thermal convection

DOI10.1017/S0022112004008079zbMath1116.76367OpenAlexW2167715473MaRDI QIDQ4656512

Siu Lam, Heng-Dong Xi, Ke-Qing Xia

Publication date: 11 March 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112004008079

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convective turbulence (76F35)

Related Items

How heat transfer efficiencies in turbulent thermal convection depend on internal flow modes, Disentangle plume-induced anisotropy in the velocity field in buoyancy-driven turbulence, Lagrangian acceleration measurements in convective thermal turbulence, Fine-scale statistics of temperature and its derivatives in convective turbulence, Flow mode transitions in turbulent thermal convection, Flow organization in two-dimensional non-Oberbeck–Boussinesq Rayleigh–Bénard convection in water, Analysis of sheet-like thermal plumes in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection, Large-scale patterns in Rayleigh-Bénard convection, Experimental investigation of homogeneity, isotropy, and circulation of the velocity field in buoyancy-driven turbulence, Rayleigh–Bénard convection in viscoelastic liquid bridges, Torsional oscillations of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection, Large-scale instabilities in a nonrotating turbulent convection, Turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection in an annular cell, Quasistatic magnetoconvection: heat transport enhancement and boundary layer crossing, An experimental study of kicked thermal turbulence, Tristable flow states and reversal of the large-scale circulation in two-dimensional circular convection cells, Fluctuations in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection: The role of plumes, Rayleigh and Prandtl number scaling in the bulk of Rayleigh–Bénard turbulence, Experimental study of the structure of flow regions with negative turbulent kinetic energy production in confined three-dimensional shear flows with and without buoyancy, Effect of tilting on turbulent convection: cylindrical samples with aspect ratio, Dynamics of the large-scale circulation in high-Prandtl-number turbulent thermal convection, Scaling behaviour in Rayleigh–Bénard convection with and without rotation, Thermoelectric precession in turbulent magnetoconvection, Multiple-resolution scheme in finite-volume code for active or passive scalar turbulence, Oscillations of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection: the sloshing mode and its relationship with the torsional mode, Flow reversals in two-dimensional thermal convection in tilted cells, Analysis of the thermal plumes in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection based on well-resolved numerical simulations, Turbulence and heat transfer on a rotating, heated half soap bubble, Reduced flow reversals in turbulent convection in the absence of corner vortices, Dynamics of reorientations and reversals of large-scale flow in Rayleigh–Bénard convection, Emergence of substructures inside the large-scale circulation induces transition in flow reversals in turbulent thermal convection, Mean velocity and temperature profiles in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection at low Prandtl numbers, A two-dimensional-three-component model for spanwise rotating plane Poiseuille flow, Collective effect of thermal plumes on temperature fluctuations in a closed Rayleigh–Bénard convection cell, The -dependence of the critical roughness height in two-dimensional turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection, Counter-flow orbiting of the vortex centre in turbulent thermal convection