Friday, January 20, 2012

1103.3789 (Mahendra K. Verma et al.)

Field correlations and the ultimate regime of turbulent convection    [PDF]

Mahendra K. Verma, Pankaj K. Mishra, Ambrish Pandey, Supriyo Paul
Using direct numerical simulations of Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection (RBC) under free-slip boundary condition, we show that the normalized correlation function between the vertical velocity field and the temperature field, as well as the normalized viscous dissipation rate, scales as $Ra^{-0.22}$ for moderately large Rayleigh number $Ra$. This scaling accounts for the Nusselt number ($Nu$) exponent to be around 0.3 observed in experiments. Numerical simulations also reveal that the above normalized correlation functions are constants for the convection simulation under periodic boundary conditions.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3789

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