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 …

Manipulating interfacial polymerization for polymeric nanofilms of composite separation membranes

Z Wang, S Liang, Y Kang, W Zhao, Y **a, J Yang… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Composite separation membranes are essential in the fields of water treatment, mass
concentration, purification, solvent exchange, gas separation, energy storage and …

Recent advances of the interfacial polymerization process in gas separation membranes fabrication

C Ge, M Sheng, Y Yuan, F Shi, Y Yang, S Zhao… - Journal of Membrane …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the growing global warming and energy issues, gas separation like carbon capture and
hydrogen purification are becoming increasingly important. Membrane separation …

Turbulent superstructures in Rayleigh-Bénard convection

A Pandey, JD Scheel, J Schumacher - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection displays a large-scale order in the form of rolls and
cells on lengths larger than the layer height once the fluctuations of temperature and velocity …

Colloquium: Unusual dynamics of convection in the Sun

J Schumacher, KR Sreenivasan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
The Sun is our nearest star; it is also the most important star that determines life on Earth. A
large variety of phenomena observed on the Sun's surface, with potential impact on Earth, is …

Turbulent thermal superstructures in Rayleigh-Bénard convection

RJAM Stevens, A Blass, X Zhu, R Verzicco, D Lohse - Physical review fluids, 2018 - APS
We report the observation of superstructures, ie, very large-scale and long living coherent
structures in highly turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection up to Rayleigh Ra= 10 9. We …

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 …

Global and local statistics in turbulent convection at low Prandtl numbers

JD Scheel, J Schumacher - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
Statistical properties of turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection at low Prandtl numbers, but
the scaling exponent of its growth with Rayleigh number is reduced. Our analysis of the …

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 …

Combined particle image velocimetry and thermometry of turbulent superstructures in thermal convection

S Moller, T Käufer, A Pandey, J Schumacher… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Turbulent superstructures in horizontally extended three-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard
convection flows are investigated in controlled laboratory experiments in water at Prandtl …