Heat transfer and large scale dynamics in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

G Ahlers, S Grossmann, D Lohse - Reviews of modern physics, 2009 - APS
The progress in our understanding of several aspects of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard
convection is reviewed. The focus is on the question of how the Nusselt number and the …

High Rayleigh number convection in a cubic cell with adiabatic sidewalls

A Vasiliev, A Sukhanovskii, P Frick, A Budnikov… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection in cubic cells is studied experimentally using two
similar but not identical experimental setups in different laboratories. Both teams have made …

Current trends and future directions in turbulent thermal convection

KQ **a - Theoretical and applied mechanics letters, 2013 - Elsevier
The system of turbulent thermal convection is introduced. Progresses in recent decades in
the four major areas of research in turbulent convection are briefly reviewed. Some of the …

Flow reversals in thermally driven turbulence

K Sugiyama, R Ni, RJAM Stevens, TS Chan, SQ Zhou… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
We analyze the reversals of the large-scale flow in Rayleigh-Bénard convection both
through particle image velocimetry flow visualization and direct numerical simulations of the …

Combined measurement of velocity and temperature in liquid metal convection

T Zürner, F Schindler, T Vogt, S Eckert… - Journal of Fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Combined measurements of velocity components and temperature in a turbulent Rayleigh–
Bénard convection flow at a low Prandtl number of are conducted in a series of experiments …

Jump rope vortex in liquid metal convection

T Vogt, S Horn, AM Grannan, JM Aurnou - Proceedings of the National …, 2018 - pnas.org
Understanding large-scale circulations (LSCs) in turbulent convective systems is important
for the study of stars, planets, and in many industrial applications. The canonical model of …

Turbulent thermal convection over rough plates with varying roughness geometries

YC **e, KQ **a - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
We present a systematic investigation of the effects of roughness geometry on turbulent
Rayleigh–Bénard convection (RBC) over rough plates with pyramid-shaped and periodically …

Suppression of flow reversals via manipulating corner rolls in plane Rayleigh–Bénard convection

CB Zhao, BF Wang, JZ Wu, KL Chong… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
In this paper, we report that reversals of the large-scale circulation in two-dimensional
Rayleigh–Bénard (RB) convection can be suppressed by imposing sinusoidally distributed …

Elliptical instability and multiple-roll flow modes of the large-scale circulation in confined turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

L Zwirner, A Tilgner, O Shishkina - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The large-scale circulation (LSC) of fluid is one of the main concepts in turbulent thermal
convection as it is known to be important in global heat and mass transport in the system. In …

Three-dimensional flow structures in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection at low Prandtl number Pr= 0.03

T Wondrak, M Sieger, R Mitra, F Schindler… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Three-dimensional flow structures in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection at low Prandtl
number Pr = 0.03 Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2023), vol. 974, A48, doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.794 …