Instantaneous Measurement of Velocity Fields in Developed Thermal Turbulence in Mercury

Details Instantaneous Measurement of Velocity Fields in Developed Thermal Turbulence in Mercury Instantaneous Measurement of Velocity Fields in Developed Thermal Turbulence in Mercury

2003-10-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310445v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.69.036306

Using ultrasonic velocimetry we measured the vertical profile of the velocity fluctuation in high Rayleigh number thermal convection in a cell with aspect ratio of 0.5, filled with a low Prandtl number fluid, mercury. Intriguing fluctuating dynamics of the mean flow and universal nature of the kinetic energy cascade are elucidated utilizing spectral decomposition and reconstruction. Scaling properties of the structure functions and the energy spectrum are directly calculated without the use of Taylor's frozen-flow hypothesis for the first time. Despite the complex nature of the mean flow, it is found that the energy cascade process exhibits universal laws in thermal turbulence.

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