Thermal convection over fractal surfaces

DOI10.1017/JFM.2020.826MaRDI QIDQ5144841zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Srikanth Toppaladoddi, A. J. Wells, J. S. Wettlaufer, Charles R. Doering

Publication date 19 January 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10194

zbMATH Keywords

fractalsturbulent convectionBénard convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Forced convection (76R05) Convective turbulence (76F35)

Abstract: We use well resolved numerical simulations with the Lattice Boltzmann Method to study Rayleigh-B'enard convection in cells with a fractal boundary in two dimensions for $Pr=1$ and $Rainleft[10^7,10^{10}ight]$. The fractal boundaries are functions characterized by power spectral densities $S(k)$ that decay with wavenumber, $k$, as $S(k)sim{k}^p$ ($p<0$). The degree of roughness is quantified by the exponent $p$ with $p<-3$ for smooth (differentiable) surfaces and $-3lep<-1$ for rough surfaces with Hausdorff dimension $D_f=frac12(p+5)$. By computing the exponent $$ in power law fits $$, where $Nu$ and $Ra$ are the Nusselt and the Rayleigh numbers for $Rainleft[10^8,10^{10}ight]$, we observe that heat transport scaling increases with roughness over the top two decades of $Rainleft[10^8,10^{10}ight]$. For $p$ $=-3.0$, $-2.0$ and $-1.5$ we find $$ and $0.352pm0.011$, respectively. We also observe that the Reynolds number, $Re$, scales as $ResimR{a}^{xi}$, where $xiapprox0.57$ over $Rainleft[10^7,10^{10}ight]$, for all $p$ used in the study. For a given value of $p$, the averaged $Nu$ and $Re$ are insensitive to the specific realization of the roughness.

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