title: Model of convective Taylor columns in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection.
abstract: Observations, and laboratory and numerical studies, of fluid flows with strong rotation and thermal forcing often show long-lived convective Taylor columns (CTCs) which carry a large portion of the vertical heat and mass fluxes. However, owing to experimental and numerical challenges, these structures remain poorly understood. Here we present a nonlinear, analytical multiscale model of CTCs in the context of rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection that successfully matches numerical simulations and provides a new multiscale interpretation of the Taylor-Proudman constraint.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Grooms
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Julien
authors.forename: Jeffrey B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.forename: Edgar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Knobloch