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Prandtl and Rayleigh number dependence of heat transport in high Rayleigh number thermal convection (1102.2307v2)

Published 11 Feb 2011 in physics.flu-dyn

Abstract: Results from direct numerical simulation for three-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in samples of aspect ratio $\Gamma=0.23$ and $\Gamma=0.5$ up to Rayleigh number $Ra=2\times10{12}$ are presented. The broad range of Prandtl numbers $0.5<Pr<10$ is considered. In contrast to some experiments, we do not see any increase in $Nu/Ra{1/3}$, neither due to $Pr$ number effects, nor due to a constant heat flux boundary condition at the bottom plate instead of constant temperature boundary conditions. Even at these very high $Ra$, both the thermal and kinetic boundary layer thicknesses obey Prandtl-Blasius scaling.

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