Prandtl-, Rayleigh-, and Rossby-number dependence of heat transport in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection.
Experimental and numerical data for the heat transfer as a function of the Rayleigh, Prandtl, and Rossby numbers in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection are presented. For relatively small Ra approximately 10(8) and large Pr modest rotation can enhance the heat transfer by up to 30%. At larger Ra there is less heat-transfer enhancement, and at small Pr less, similar 0.7 there is no heat-transfer enhancement at all. We suggest that the small-Pr behavior is due to the breakdown of the heat-transfer-enhancing Ekman pumping because of larger thermal diffusion.
Zhong
Jin-Qiang
JQ
Department of Physics and iQCD, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
Stevens
Richard J A M
RJ
Clercx
Herman J H
HJ
Verzicco
Roberto
R
Lohse
Detlef
D
Ahlers
Guenter
G