The geostrophic turbulence in rapidly rotating thermal convection exhibits characteristics
shared by many highly turbulent geophysical and astrophysical flows. In this regime, the …

The present work focuses on the effect of rough horizontal boundaries on the heat transfer in
rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection. We measure the non-dimensional heat transfer, the …

We investigate states of rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a cylindrical cell over
a range of Rayleigh numbers 3× 10 5≤ Ra≤ 5× 10 9 and Ekman numbers 10− 6≤ Ek≤ …

Rotating turbulent convection occurs ubiquitously in natural convective systems
encompassing planetary cores, oceans, and atmospheres, as well as in many industrial …

The interiors of many planets consist mostly of fluid layers. When these layers are subject to
superadiabatic temperature or compositional gradients, turbulent convection transports heat …

Flows at planetary scales, such as geophysical and astrophysical processes, are driven by
buoyancy and influenced by rotation. Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection is a practical …

In the rapidly rotating limit, we derive a balanced set of reduced equations governing the
strongly nonlinear development of the convective wall-mode instability in the interior of a …