Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
2011-10-28
Phys. Rev. E 85, 027301 (2012)
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
5 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.85.027301
We numerically investigate the structures of the near-plate temperature profiles close to the bottom and top plates of turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard flow in a cylindrical sample at Rayleigh numbers Ra=10^8 to Ra=2\times10^{12} and Prandtl numbers Pr=6.4 and Pr=0.7 with the dynamical frame method [Q. Zhou and K.-Q. Xia, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 104301 (2010)] thus extending previous results for quasi-2-dimensional systems to 3D systems for the first time. The dynamical frame method shows that the measured temperature profiles in the spatially and temporally local frame are much closer to the temperature profile of a laminar, zero-pressure gradient boundary layer according to Pohlhausen than in the fixed reference frame. The deviation between the measured profiles in the dynamical reference frame and the laminar profiles increases with decreasing Pr, where the thermal BL is more exposed to the bulk fluctuations due to the thinner kinetic BL, and increasing Ra, where more plumes are passing the measurement location.
Grossmann Siegfried
Lohse Detlef
Stevens Richard J. A. M.
Verzicco Roberto
Xia Ke-Qing
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