Bounds on heat transport for convection driven by internal heating

DOI10.1017/JFM.2021.360zbMATH Open1486.76075arXiv2102.06458OpenAlexW3165061542MaRDI QIDQ4993136FDOQ4993136

Authors: Ali Arslan, John Craske, Giovanni Fantuzzi, A. Wynn 

Publication date: 15 June 2021

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

Abstract: The mean vertical heat transport $langlewTangle$ in convection between isothermal plates driven by uniform internal heating is investigated by means of rigorous bounds. These are obtained as a function of the Rayleigh number $R$ by constructing feasible solutions to a convex variational problem, derived using a formulation of the classical background method in terms of quadratic auxiliary functions. When the fluid's temperature relative to the boundaries is allowed to be positive or negative, numerical solution of the variational problem shows that best previous bound $langlewTangleleq1/2$ can only be improved up to finite $R$. Indeed, we demonstrate analytically that $langlewTangleleq{2}^{-21/5}{R}^{1/5}$ and therefore prove that $langlewTangle<1/2$ for $R<65,536$. However, if the minimum principle for temperature is invoked, which asserts that internal temperature is at least as large as the temperature of the isothermal boundaries, then numerically optimised bounds are strictly smaller than $1/2$ until at least $R=3.4imes10^5$. While the computational results suggest that the best bound on $langlewTangle$ approaches $1/2$ asymptotically from below as $Rightarrowinfty$, we prove that typical analytical constructions cannot be used to prove this conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06458

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zbMATH Keywords

convex variational problemnumerically optimised boundtemperature minimal principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free convection (76R10) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Diffusive and convective heat and mass transfer, heat flow (80A19)

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Uses Software

• SDPA
• SparseCoLO

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