Rayleigh–Bénard thermal convection perturbed by a horizontal heat flux

DOI10.1017/JFM.2022.1035zbMATH Open1506.76160arXiv2112.06768OpenAlexW4200631786MaRDI QIDQ5876161FDOQ5876161

Authors: Jinzi Mac Huang, Jun Zhang 

Publication date: 31 January 2023

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

Abstract: In Rayleigh-B'enard convection, it has been found that the amount of heat passing through the fluid has a power law dependence on the imposed temperature difference. Modifying this dependence, either enhancing or reducing the heat transfer capability of fluids, is important in many scientific and practical applications. Here, we present a simple means to control the vertical heat transfer in Rayleigh-B'enard convection by injecting heat through one lateral side of the fluid domain and extracting the same amount of heat from the opposite side. This horizontal heat flux regulates the large-scale circulation, and increases the heat transfer rate in the vertical direction. Our numerical and theoretical studies demonstrate how a classical Rayleigh-B'enard convection responds to such a perturbation, when the system is near or well above the onset of convection.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06768

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zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationsbuoyancy-driven instabilitytime-dependent perturbationpseudo-spectral Chebyshev method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) Free convection (76R10) Diffusive and convective heat and mass transfer, heat flow (80A19) Convection in hydrodynamic stability (76E06)

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