Rare fluctuations and large-scale circulation cessations in turbulent convection

Details Rare fluctuations and large-scale circulation cessations in turbulent convection Rare fluctuations and large-scale circulation cessations in turbulent convection

2011-04-25

arxiv.org/abs/1104.4677v2

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Fluid Dynamics

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In turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection, a large-scale circulation (LSC) develops in a nearly vertical plane, and is maintained by rising and falling plumes detaching from the unstable thermal boundary layers. Rare but large fluctuations in the LSC amplitude can lead to extinction of the LSC (a cessation event), followed by the re-emergence of another LSC with a different (random) azimuthal orientation. We extend previous models of the LSC dynamics to include momentum and thermal diffusion in the azimuthal plane, and calculate the tails of the probability distributions of both the amplitude and azimuthal angle. Our analytical results are in very good agreement with experimental data.

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