Thermal convection over fractal surfaces

DOI10.1017/JFM.2020.826zbMATH Open1461.76247arXiv1908.10194OpenAlexW3109826364MaRDI QIDQ5144841FDOQ5144841

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

Publication date: 19 January 2021

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

fractalsturbulent convectionBénard convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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