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Model for classical and ultimate regimes of radiatively driven turbulent convection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2020

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M. Creyssels*
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Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, University of Lyon, CNRS, 69134Ecully, France
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†Email address for correspondence: mathieu.creyssels@ec-lyon.fr
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Abstract

In a standard Rayleigh–Bénard experiment, a layer of fluid is confined between two horizontal plates and the convection regime is controlled by the temperature difference between the hot lower plate and the cold upper plate. The effect of direct heat injection into the fluid layer itself, for example by light absorption, is studied here theoretically. In this case, the Nusselt number ($Nu$) depends on three non-dimensional parameters: the Rayleigh ($Ra$) and Prandtl ($Pr$) numbers and the ratio between the spatial extension of the heat source ($l$) and the height of the fluid layer ($h$). For both the well-known classical and ultimate convection regimes, the theory developed here gives a formula for the variations of the Nusselt number as a function of these parameters. For the classical convection regime, by increasing $l/h$ from 0 to 1/2, $Nu$ gradually changes from the standard scaling $Nu \sim Ra^{1/3}$ to an asymptotic scaling $Nu \sim Ra^{{\theta }}$, with $\theta =2/3$ or $\theta =1$ by adopting, respectively, the Malkus (Proc. R. Soc. A, vol. 225, 1954, pp. 196–212) theory or the Grossmann & Lohse (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 407, 2000, pp. 27–56) theory. For the ultimate convection regime, $Nu$ gradually changes from $Nu \sim Ra^{1/2}$ scaling to an asymptotic behaviour seen only at very high $Ra$ for which $Nu \sim Ra^{2}$. This theory is validated by the recent experimental results given by Bouillaut et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 861, 2019, R5) and also shows that for these experiments, $Ra$ and $Re$ numbers were too small to observe the ultimate regime. The predictions for the ultimate regime cannot be confirmed at this time due to the absence of experimental or numerical work on convection driven by internal sources and for very large $Ra$ numbers.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 900 , 10 October 2020 , A39
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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