The effect of Prandtl number on turbulent sheared thermal convection

DOI10.1017/JFM.2020.1019MaRDI QIDQ5145497zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Blass, Pier Tabak, R. Verzicco, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Detlef Lohse

Publication date 20 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/2007.02825

zbMATH Keywords

atmospheric flowsturbulent convectionBénard convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convective turbulence (76F35) Geophysical flows (76U60)

Abstract: In turbulent wall sheared thermal convection, there are three different flow regimes, depending on the relative relevance of thermal forcing and wall shear. In this paper we report the results of direct numerical simulations of such sheared Rayleigh-B'enard convection, at fixed Rayleigh number $Ra=10^6$, varying the wall Reynolds number in the range $0leqR{e}_{w}leq4000$ and Prandtl number $0.22leqPrleq4.6$, extending our prior work by Blass et al. (2020), where $Pr$ was kept constant at unity and the thermal forcing ($Ra$) varied. We cover a wide span of bulk Richardson numbers $0.014leqRileq100$ and show that the Prandtl number strongly influences the morphology and dynamics of the flow structures. In particular, at fixed $Ra$ and $R{e}_w$, a high Prandtl number causes stronger momentum transport from the walls and therefore yields a greater impact of the wall shear on the flow structures, resulting in an increased effect of $R{e}_w$ on the Nusselt number. Furthermore, we analyse the thermal and kinetic boundary layer thicknesses and relate their behaviour to the resulting flow regimes. For the largest shear rates and $Pr$ numbers, we observe the emergence of a Prandtl-von Karman log-layer, signalling the onset of turbulent dynamics in the boundary layer. Finally, our results allow to extend the Grossmann-Lohse theory for heat transport in Rayleigh-B'enard convection to the sheared case, universally describing $Nu(Ra,Pr,R{e}_w)$.

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