Interplay between advective, diffusive and active barriers in (rotating) Rayleigh–Bénard flow

DOI10.1017/JFM.2023.563arXiv2302.06319MaRDI QIDQ6137623FDOQ6137623

G. Haller, Detlef Lohse, Robert Hartmann, Nikolas Olson Aksamit

Publication date: 4 September 2023

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

Abstract: Our understanding of the material organization of complex fluid flows has recently benefited from mathematical developments in the theory of objective coherent structures. These methods have provided a wealth of approaches that identify transport barriers in three-dimensional (3D) turbulent flows. Specifically, theoretical advances have been incorporated into numerical algorithms that extract the most influential advective, diffusive and active barriers to transport from data sets in a frame-indifferent fashion. To date, however, there has been very limited investigation into these objectively-defined transport barriers in 3D unsteady flows with complicated spatiotemporal dynamics. Similarly, no systematic comparison of advective, diffusive and active barriers has been carried out in a 3D flow with both thermal and shear-driven features. In our study, we utilize simulations of turbulent rotating Rayleigh-B'enard convection to uncover the interplay between advective transport barriers (Lagrangian coherent structures), material barriers to diffusive heat transport and objective Eulerian barriers to momentum transport. For a range of (inverse) Rossby numbers, we visualize each type of barrier and quantify their role as barriers to momentum and heat transport under changes in the relative influence of mechanical and thermal forces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06319

zbMATH Keywords

pattern formationchaotic advectionBénard convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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