| Issue |
EPL
Volume 81, Number 6, March 2008
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| Article Number | 64008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/81/64008 | |
| Published online | 07 March 2008 | |
Numerical simulations of flow reversal in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
1
Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” - Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
2
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” - Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
Received:
13
August
2007
Accepted:
28
January
2008
We investigate numerically the statistical properties of the large-scale flow in Rayleigh-Bénard convection. By using an external random perturbation on the temperature field, we were able to decrease the effective Prandtl number of the flow while keeping the Rayleigh number relatively small; this increases the Reynolds number thus making possible the numerical investigation of the long-term flow statistics. We also propose a simple and quantitative explanation for the experimental findings on the statistical distribution of flow reversals and reorientations.
PACS: 47.27.-i – Turbulent flows / 05.45.-a – Nonlinear dynamics and chaos / 47.55.P- – Buoyancy-driven flows; convection
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