Bounds on heat transport in rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/28/1/29MaRDI QIDQ5496689zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ian Grooms, Jared P. Whitehead

Publication date 2 February 2015

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1458

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

Abstract: The heat transport in rotating Rayleigh-B'enard convection is considered in the limit of rapid rotation (small Ekman number $E$) and strong thermal forcing (large Rayleigh number $Ra$). The analysis proceeds from a set of asymptotically reduced equations appropriate for rotationally constrained dynamics; the conjectured range of validity for these equations is $Ralesssim{E}^{-8/5}$. A rigorous bound on heat transport of $Nule20.56R{a}^3{E}^4$ is derived in the limit of infinite Prandtl number using the background method. We demonstrate that the exponent in this bound cannot be improved on using a piece-wise monotonic background temperature profile like the one used here. This is true for finite Prandtl numbers as well, i.e. $NulesssimR{a}^3$ is the best upper bound for this particular setup of the background method. The feature that obstructs the availability of a better bound in this case is the appearance of small-scale thermal plumes emanating from (or entering) the thermal boundary layer.

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