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Boundary layer structure in confined turbulent thermal convection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

R. Verzicco
R. Verzicco*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Roma, Italy Physics of Fluids, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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†Email address for correspondence: verzicco@uniroma2.it
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The structure of viscous and thermal boundary layers at the heated and cooled plates in turbulent thermally driven flows are of fundamental importance for heat transfer and its dependence on the thermal forcing (the Rayleigh number in non-dimensional form). The paper by Shi, Emran & Schumacher (J. Fluid Mech., this issue, vol. 706, 2012, pp. 5–33) stresses the deviations of the boundary layer vertical profiles from the Prandtl–Blasius–Pohlhausen theory. Recent papers showing very similar results, in contrast, focus more on the similarities.

JFM classification

Boundary Layers: Boundary layer structure Convection: Buoyant boundary layers

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Focus on Fluids
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 706 , 10 September 2012 , pp. 1 - 4
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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