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 …

High–reynolds number taylor-couette turbulence

S Grossmann, D Lohse, C Sun - Annual review of fluid …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Taylor-Couette flow, the flow between two coaxial co-or counter-rotating cylinders, is one of
the paradigmatic systems in the physics of fluids. The (dimensionless) control parameters …

Vibration-induced boundary-layer destabilization achieves massive heat-transport enhancement

BF Wang, Q Zhou, C Sun - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
Thermal turbulence is well known as a potent means to convey heat across space by a
moving fluid. The existence of the boundary layers near the plates, however, bottlenecks its …

Transition to the ultimate state of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

X He, D Funfschilling, H Nobach, E Bodenschatz… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
Measurements of the Nusselt number Nu and of a Reynolds number Re eff for Rayleigh-
Bénard convection (RBC) over the Rayleigh-number range 10 12≲ Ra≲ 10 15 and for …

[BOOK][B] Physics of buoyant flows: from instabilities to turbulence

MK Verma - 2018 - World Scientific
Hydrodynamic flows exhibit turbulent behaviour which is not well understood till date. When
a fluid is in a gravitational field, the flow becomes even more complex due to the gravity …

High shear-induced exfoliation of graphite into high quality graphene by Taylor–Couette flow

TS Tran, SJ Park, SS Yoo, TR Lee, TY Kim - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of an industrially scalable method to produce large quantities of high
quality graphene is essential for its practical application in electronics, composite materials …

Multiple states in highly turbulent Taylor–Couette flow

SG Huisman, RC Van Der Veen, C Sun… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The ubiquity of turbulent flows in nature and technology makes it of utmost importance to
fundamentally understand turbulence. Kolmogorov's 1941 paradigm suggests that for …

Exploring the phase diagram of fully turbulent Taylor–Couette flow

R Ostilla-Mónico, EP Van Der Poel… - Journal of fluid …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Direct numerical simulations of Taylor–Couette flow, ie the flow between two coaxial and
independently rotating cylinders, were performed. Shear Reynolds numbers of up to, were …

Bubble drag reduction requires large bubbles

RA Verschoof, RCA Van Der Veen, C Sun, D Lohse - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
In the maritime industry, the injection of air bubbles into the turbulent boundary layer under
the ship hull is seen as one of the most promising techniques to reduce the overall fuel …