Upper bounds on Nusselt number at finite Prandtl number

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2015.10.051MaRDI QIDQ898577zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antoine Choffrut, Camilla Nobili, Felix Otto

Publication date 18 December 2015

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

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)

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.

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