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 …

New perspectives in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

F Chillà, J Schumacher - The European Physical Journal E, 2012 - Springer
Recent experimental, numerical and theoretical advances in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard
convection are presented. Particular emphasis is given to the physics and structure of the …

Enhanced heat transport in partitioned thermal convection

Y Bao, J Chen, BF Liu, ZS She, J Zhang… - Journal of Fluid …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Enhancement of heat transport across a fluid layer is of fundamental interest as well as great
technological importance. For decades, Rayleigh–Bénard convection has been a paradigm …

Simultaneous 3D measurement of the translation and rotation of finite-size particles and the flow field in a fully developed turbulent water flow

S Klein, M Gibert, A Bérut… - … Science and Technology, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a novel experimental technique that measures simultaneously in three
dimensions the trajectories, the translation and the rotation of finite-size inertial particles …

Experimental evidence of a phase transition in a closed turbulent flow

PP Cortet, A Chiffaudel, F Daviaud, B Dubrulle - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
We experimentally study the susceptibility to symmetry breaking of a closed turbulent von
Kármán swirling flow from Re= 150 to Re≃ 10 6. We report a divergence of this susceptibility …

Bulk scaling in wall-bounded and homogeneous vertical natural convection

CS Ng, A Ooi, D Lohse, D Chung - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
Previous numerical studies on homogeneous Rayleigh–Bénard convection, which is
Rayleigh–Bénard convection (RBC) without walls, and therefore without boundary layers …

Heat transfer and flow structure in centrally-confined 2-D Rayleigh-Bénard convection

C Sun, J Wu, X Meng, C Liu, W Xu, Y Dong… - Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Through direct numerical simulations, we investigated the flow structure and heat transfer of
the centrally confined 2-D Rayleigh-Bénard (RB) convection over the Rayleigh number …

Steady thermal convection representing the ultimate scaling

S Motoki, G Kawahara… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Nonlinear simple invariant solutions representing the ultimate scaling have been discovered
to the Navier–Stokes equations for thermal convection between horizontal no-slip …

Heat transfer measurements in an inclined low aspect ratio Rayleigh–Bénard convection cell under feedback control

RH Hernández, M Vial - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
We report experimental results on the inclined Rayleigh–Bénard convection of a moderate
aspect ratio convection cell using a high Prandtl aqueous solution of glycerol. The main goal …

Buoyancy-driven bubbly flows: scaling of velocities in bubble columns operated in the heterogeneous regime

Y Mezui, M Obligado, A Cartellier - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The hydrodynamics of bubble columns in the heterogeneous regime is revisited. Focusing
on air–water systems at large aspect ratio, we show from dimensional analysis that …