Rotation with thermally induced buoyancy governs many astrophysical and geophysical
processes in the atmosphere, ocean, sun, and Earth's liquid-metal outer core. Rotating …

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 …

Thermal convection is one of the basic modes (thermal convection, thermal conduction,
thermal radiation) of heat transfer, and it belongs to the thermo-fluid mechanics. With the …

In this paper, we investigate and develop scaling laws as a function of external
nondimensional control parameters for heat and momentum transport for nonrotating, slowly …

Results from direct numerical simulation (DNS) for three-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard
convection in a cylindrical cell of aspect ratio 1/2 and Prandtl number Pr= 0.7 are presented …

Two-dimensional and three-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard convection is compared using
results from direct numerical simulations and previous experiments. The phase diagrams for …

An accurate description of turbulent core convection is necessary in order to build robust
models of planetary core processes. Towards this end, we focus here on the physics of …

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 …

Rayleigh–Bénard convection in rotating spherical shells can be considered as a simplified
analogue of many astrophysical and geophysical fluid flows. Here, we use three …

Rough surfaces have been widely used as an efficient way to enhance the heat-transfer
efficiency in turbulent thermal convection. In this paper, however, we show that roughness …