Upper bounds on Nusselt number at finite Prandtl number

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2015.10.051zbMATH Open1333.35185arXiv1412.4812OpenAlexW2962820061MaRDI QIDQ898577FDOQ898577

Antoine Choffrut, Felix Otto, Camilla Nobili

Publication date: 18 December 2015

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study Rayleigh B'enard convection based on the Boussinesq approximation. We are interested in upper bounds on the Nusselt number $mathrmNu$, the upwards heat transport, in terms of the Rayleigh number $mathrmRa$, that characterizes the relative strength of the driving mechanism and the Prandtl number $mathrmPr$, that characterizes the strength of the inertial effects. We show that, up to logarithmic corrections, the upper bound $mathrmNulesssimmathrm{Ra}^{frac13}$ of Constantin and Doering in 1999 persists as long as $mathrmPrgtrsimmathrm{Ra}^{frac13}$ and then crosses over to $mathrmNulesssimmathrm{Pr}^{-frac12}mathrm{Ra}^{frac12}$. This result improves the one of Wang by going beyond the perturbative regime $mathrmPrggmathrmRa$. The proof uses a new way to estimate the transport nonlinearity in the Navier-Stokes equations capitalizing on the no-slip boundary condition. It relies on a new Calder'on-Zygmund estimate for the non-stationary Stokes equations in $L^1$ with a borderline Muckenhoupt weight.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4812

zbMATH Keywords

Prandtl numberNusselt numberBoussinesq approximationRayleigh numberRayleigh-Benard convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Free convection (76R10)

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