Laboratory exploration of heat transfer regimes in rapidly rotating turbulent convection

JS Cheng, M Madonia, AJ Aguirre Guzmán… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We report heat transfer and temperature profile measurements in laboratory experiments of
rapidly rotating convection in water under intense thermal forcing (Rayleigh number Ra as …

Scaling regimes in rapidly rotating thermal convection at extreme Rayleigh numbers

J Song, O Shishkina, X Zhu - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
The geostrophic turbulence in rapidly rotating thermal convection exhibits characteristics
shared by many highly turbulent geophysical and astrophysical flows. In this regime, the …

The geostrophic regime of rapidly rotating turbulent convection

RPJ Kunnen - Journal of Turbulence, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection is a simple model system used to study the interplay
of buoyant forcing and rotation. Many recent studies have focused on the geostrophic …

Heat transfer by rapidly rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection

EM King, S Stellmach, JM Aurnou - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2012 - cambridge.org
Turbulent, rapidly rotating convection has been of interest for decades, yet there exists no
generally accepted scaling law for heat transfer behaviour in this system. Here, we develop …

Exploring the geostrophic regime of rapidly rotating convection with experiments

H Rajaei, RPJ Kunnen, HJH Clercx - Physics of Fluids, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Rapidly rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection is studied using time-resolved particle image
velocimetry and three-dimensional particle tracking velocimetry. Approaching the …

Thermal evidence for Taylor columns in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

EM King, JM Aurnou - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2012 - APS
We investigate flow structures in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection experiments in water
using thermal measurements. We focus on correlations between time series measurements …

Velocimetry in rapidly rotating convection: Spatial correlations, flow structures and length scales (a)

M Madonia, AJA Guzmán, HJH Clercx… - Europhysics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection is an oft-employed model system to evaluate the
interplay of buoyant forcing and Coriolis forces due to rotation, an eminently relevant …

Turbulent rotating convection

RPJ Kunnen - 2008 - research.tue.nl
Many flows in nature and technology are driven by buoyant convection and subsequently
modulated by rotation. Typical and highly relevant examples are found in the large-scale …

Experimental observation of the geostrophic turbulence regime of rapidly rotating convection

V Bouillaut, B Miquel, K Julien… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The competition between turbulent convection and global rotation in planetary and stellar
interiors governs the transport of heat and tracers, as well as magnetic field generation …

Rotating convective turbulence in moderate to high Prandtl number fluids

JA Abbate, JM Aurnou - Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Rotating convective turbulence is ubiquitously found across geophysical settings, such as
surface and subsurface oceans, planetary atmospheres, molten metal planetary cores …