Wall-sheared thermal convection: heat transfer enhancement and turbulence relaminarization

A Xu, BR Xu, HD Xi - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
We studied the flow organization and heat transfer properties in two-dimensional and three-
dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard cells that are imposed with different types of wall shear. The …

Similarities between characteristics of convective turbulence in confined and extended domains

A Pandey, D Krasnov, J Schumacher… - Physica D: Nonlinear …, 2022 - Elsevier
To understand turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers typical of natural
phenomena, computational studies in slender cells are an option if the needed resources …

[HTML][HTML] Rayleigh–Taylor turbulence in strongly coupled dusty plasmas

R Wani, M Verma, S Tiwari - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The turbulence mixing initiated by the Rayleigh–Taylor instability has been reported in a two-
dimensional (2D) strongly coupled dusty plasma system using classical molecular dynamics …

Statistics of temperature and thermal energy dissipation rate in low-Prandtl number turbulent thermal convection

A Xu, L Shi, HD Xi - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We report the statistical properties of temperature and thermal energy dissipation rate in low-
Prandtl number turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection. High resolution two-dimensional …

Predictions of Reynolds and Nusselt numbers in turbulent convection using machine-learning models

S Bhattacharya, MK Verma, A Bhattacharya - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we develop a multivariate regression model and a neural network model to
predict the Reynolds number (Re) and Nusselt number in turbulent thermal convection. We …

Experimental investigation of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection of water in a cylindrical cell: The Prandtl number effects for Pr> 1

YH Yang, X Zhu, BF Wang, YL Liu, Q Zhou - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We report an experimental study of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a cylindrical
cell of aspect ratio unity, focusing on the effects of the Prandtl number (Pr). Purified water …

Statistics of thermal plumes and dissipation rates in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a cubic cell

VT Vishnu, AK De, PK Mishra - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigate the statistics of dissipation rates in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
inside a cubic cell for air (P r= 0.7) in the Rayleigh number range 2× 10 6≤ R a≤ 10 9 using …

Revisiting Reynolds and Nusselt numbers in turbulent thermal convection

S Bhattacharya, MK Verma, R Samtaney - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we extend Grossmann and Lohse's (GL) model [S. Grossmann and D.
Lohse,“Thermal convection for large Prandtl numbers,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3316 (2001)] for …

Prandtl number dependence of the small-scale properties in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

S Bhattacharya, MK Verma, R Samtaney - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
We analyze the Prandtl number (Pr) dependence of spectra and fluxes of kinetic energy, as
well as the energy injection rates and dissipation rates, of turbulent thermal convection using …

Statistics of coherent structures in two-dimensional turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

K Chand, M Sharma, VT Vishnu, AK De - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Characterization of coherent structures in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection using
statistical measures is presented in the present work. Numerical simulations are carried out …