Ultimate Rayleigh-Bénard turbulence

D Lohse, O Shishkina - Reviews of modern physics, 2024 - APS
Thermally driven turbulent flows are omnipresent in nature and technology. A good
understanding of the physical principles governing such flows is key for numerous problems …

Natural convection over vertical and horizontal heated flat surfaces: A review of recent progress focusing on underpinnings and implications for heat transfer and …

Y Fan, Y Zhao, JF Torres, F Xu, C Lei, Y Li… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Natural convection arising over vertical and horizontal heated flat surfaces is one of the most
ubiquitous flows at a range of spatiotemporal scales. Despite significant developments over …

Rayleigh-Bénard convection: The container shape matters

O Shishkina - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
To study turbulent thermal convection, one often chooses a Rayleigh-Bénard flow
configuration, where a fluid is confined between a heated bottom plate, a cooled top plate of …

Effect of shear on local boundary layers in turbulent convection

PP Shevkar, SK Mohanan… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
In Rayleigh Bénard convection, for a range of Prandtl numbers $4.69\leqslant Pr\leqslant
5.88$ and Rayleigh numbers $5.52\times 10^ 5\leqslant Ra\leqslant 1.21\times 10^ 9$, we …

[HTML][HTML] Heat and momentum transfer in Rayleigh–Bénard convection within a two-dimensional annulus under radial gravity

A Bhadra, O Shishkina, X Zhu - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2025 - Elsevier
We conduct direct numerical simulations (DNS) to explore Rayleigh–Bénard convection
(RBC) within a two-dimensional (2D) annular domain, where the radius ratio (η) plays a …

Heat-flux fluctuations revealing regime transitions in Rayleigh-Bénard convection

V Labarre, S Fauve, S Chibbaro - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
The study of the transitions among different regimes in thermal convection has been an
issue of paramount importance in fluid mechanics. While the bifurcations at low Rayleigh …

Non-Boussinesq convection at low Prandtl numbers relevant to the Sun

A Pandey, J Schumacher, KR Sreenivasan - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
Convection in the Sun occurs at Rayleigh numbers, Ra, as high as 10 22 and molecular
Prandtl numbers, Pr, as low as 10− 6, under conditions that are far from satisfying the …

Thermal boundary layer dynamics in low-Prandtl-number Rayleigh–Bénard convection

N Kim, F Schindler, T Vogt, S Eckert - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
Thermal boundary layer dynamics in low-Prandtl-number Rayleigh–Bénard convection Page 1
J. Fluid Mech. (2024), vol. 994, A4, doi:10.1017/jfm.2024.629 Thermal boundary layer dynamics …

Oscillatory large-scale circulation in liquid-metal thermal convection and its structural unit

A Teimurazov, S Singh, S Su, S Eckert… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
In Rayleigh–Bénard convection, the size of a flow domain and its aspect ratio. Future studies
for large-aspect-ratio domains of different shapes would enhance our understanding of how …

Turbulent Prandtl number from isotropically forced turbulence

PJ Käpylä, NK Singh - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Turbulent Prandtl number from isotropically forced turbulence Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2022), vol.
952, R1, doi:10.1017/jfm.2022.906 Turbulent Prandtl number from isotropically forced …