Boundary layer evolution in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection

2012/09/28 by Herwig Zilken, Zilken, Herwig, Mohammad S. Emran +2
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Environmental Science · #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations #Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1209.6437

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Abstract

We present a fluid dynamics video which illustrates the dynamics of the velocity field in the boundary layer in a turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection flow. The data are obtained from direct numerical simulation.

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