Tuning heat transport via coherent structure manipulation: recent advances in thermal turbulence

KQ **a, SD Huang, YC **e, L Zhang - National Science Review, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Tuning transport properties through the manipulation of elementary structures has achieved
great success in many areas, such as condensed matter physics. However, the ability to …

Flow structure transition in thermal vibrational convection

XL Guo, JZ Wu, BF Wang, Q Zhou… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
This study investigates the effect of vibration on the flow structure transitions in thermal
vibrational convection (TVC) systems, which occur when a fluid layer with a temperature …

Regime transitions in thermally driven high-Rayleigh number vertical convection

Q Wang, HR Liu, R Verzicco, O Shishkina… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Regime transitions in thermally driven high-Rayleigh number vertical convection Page 1 J. Fluid
Mech. (2021), vol. 917, A6, doi:10.1017/jfm.2021.262 Regime transitions in thermally driven …

The effect of the cell tilting on the temperature oscillation in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection

X Chen, A Xu, KQ **a, HD ** - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We experimentally studied the effect of cell tilting on the temperature oscillation in turbulent
Rayleigh–Bénard convection. We simultaneously measured the temperature using both in …

Achieving heat transfer enhancement via manipulation of bulk flow structures in turbulent thermal convection

L Zhang, KQ **a - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
We report an experimental study on the enhancement of heat transfer efficiency in turbulent
thermal convection via manipulation of the bulk flow, which is achieved by inserting artificial …

Constructing Thermal Convection Film for Low Heat Loss and High Salt Resistance in Wood‐Based Solar Evaporators

Y Pang, C Ma, L Song, L **, K Zhu, Y Wu, L Li, F Chen… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Unique suspension solar evaporator is one of the effective measures to address the major
bottleneck of the emerging interfacial evaporators, ie, the accumulation of salts on the …

Heat transfer in a quasi-one-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard convection cell

L Zhang, KQ **a - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
We report an experimental and numerical study on Rayleigh–Bénard convection in a
slender rectangular geometry with the aspect ratio, the flow comes back to the classical …

An experimental study of off-centred rotating thermal convection: a laboratory model for the tidal effects

YB Hu, KQ **a - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
A novel experiment was performed in rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection (RRBC),
wherein the convection cell with radius on the hot one, the cold structure is more coherent …

Exploring the plume and shear effects in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection with effective horizontal buoyancy under streamwise and spanwise geometrical …

L Zhang, J Dong, KQ **a - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
We present an experimental and numerical study of turbulent thermal convection in the
presence of an effective horizontal buoyancy that generates extra shear at the boundary …

Effects of ratchet surfaces on inclined thermal convection

H Jiang, D Wang, Y Cheng, H Hao, C Sun - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The influence of ratchets on inclined convection is explored within a rectangular cell (aspect
ratio Γ x= 1 and Γ y= 0.25⁠) by experiments and simulations. Measurements are conducted …