TY - GEN
T1 - Turbulent thermal convection
AU - Fonda, Enrico
AU - Sreenivasan, Katepalli R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Turbulent thermal convection is a phenomenon of crucial importance in understanding the heat transport and dynamics of several natural and engineering flows. Real world systems such as the Earth’s atmosphere—its oceans as well as the interior—and the interior of stars such as the Sun, are all affected to various degrees by thermal convection. The simplified physical model used to understand this ubiquitous heat transport mechanism is the Rayleigh-Bénard convection, which is a fluid flow driven by a temperature difference between the top and bottom plates of an experimental cell with adiabatic sidewalls. Despite the long history of the subject and the recent progress in theoretical, numerical and experimental domains, many questions remain unresolved. We report some recent results and discuss a few open issues.
AB - Turbulent thermal convection is a phenomenon of crucial importance in understanding the heat transport and dynamics of several natural and engineering flows. Real world systems such as the Earth’s atmosphere—its oceans as well as the interior—and the interior of stars such as the Sun, are all affected to various degrees by thermal convection. The simplified physical model used to understand this ubiquitous heat transport mechanism is the Rayleigh-Bénard convection, which is a fluid flow driven by a temperature difference between the top and bottom plates of an experimental cell with adiabatic sidewalls. Despite the long history of the subject and the recent progress in theoretical, numerical and experimental domains, many questions remain unresolved. We report some recent results and discuss a few open issues.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-11487-3_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-11487-3_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85056295432
SN - 9783319114866
T3 - Environmental Science and Engineering
SP - 37
EP - 49
BT - Selected Topics of Computational and Experimental Fluid Mechanics, 2013
A2 - Klapp, Jaime
A2 - Ovando, Abraham Medina
A2 - Villa, Abel Lopez
A2 - Sigalotti, Leonardo Di G.
A2 - Klapp, Jaime
A2 - Chavarria, Gerardo Ruiz
A2 - Sigalotti, Leonardo Di G.
PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
T2 - International Enzo Levi Spring School and 19th National Congress of the Fluid Dynamics Division of the Mexican Physical Society, 2013
Y2 - 13 November 2015 through 15 November 2015
ER -