Turbulent rotating rayleigh–bénard convection

RE Ecke, O Shishkina - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Rotation with thermally induced buoyancy governs many astrophysical and geophysical
processes in the atmosphere, ocean, sun, and Earth's liquid-metal outer core. Rotating …

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 …

Aspect ratio dependence of heat transfer in a cylindrical Rayleigh-Bénard cell

G Ahlers, E Bodenschatz, R Hartmann, X He, D Lohse… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
While the heat transfer and the flow dynamics in a cylindrical Rayleigh-Bénard (RB) cell are
rather independent of the aspect ratio Γ (diameter/height) for large Γ, a small-Γ cell …

Rayleigh-Bénard convection: The container shape matters

O Shishkina - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
To study turbulent thermal convection, one often chooses a Rayleigh-Bénard flow
configuration, where a fluid is confined between a heated bottom plate, a cooled top plate of …

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 …

Robust wall states in rapidly rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection

B Favier, E Knobloch - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
We show, using direct numerical simulations with experimentally realizable boundary
conditions, that wall modes in Rayleigh–Bénard convection in a rapidly rotating cylinder …

Direct numerical simulations of centrifugal convection: from gravitational to centrifugal buoyancy dominance

Z Yao, MS Emran, A Teimurazov… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
We report the results of direct numerical simulations (DNS) of centrifugal convection (CC) in
an annular container, heated at the outer sidewall and cooled at the inner wall, all subjected …

Direct numerical simulations of rapidly rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection with Rayleigh number up to

J Song, O Shishkina, X Zhu - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
Three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection in
the planar geometry with no-slip top and bottom and periodic lateral boundary conditions …

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 …

Turbulent rotating convection confined in a slender cylinder: the sidewall circulation

XM de Wit, AJ Aguirre Guzmán, M Madonia… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Recent studies of rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection at high rotation rates and strong
thermal forcing have shown a significant discrepancy in total heat transport between …