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Thermal convection over fractal surfaces
Stockholm University, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita). Yale University, USA.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1676-9645
Number of Authors: 42020 (English)In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, ISSN 0022-1120, E-ISSN 1469-7645, Vol. 907, article id A12Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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We use well resolved numerical simulations with the lattice Boltzmann method to study Rayleigh-Benard convection in cells with a fractal boundary in two dimensions for Pr = 1 and Ra is an element of [10(7), 10(10)], where Pr and Ra are the Prandtl and Rayleigh numbers. The fractal boundaries are functions characterized by power spectral densities S(k) that decay with wavenumber, k, as S(k) similar to kp (p < 0). The degree of roughness is quantified by the exponent p with p < -3 for smooth (differentiable) surfaces and -3 <= p < -1 for rough surfaces with Hausdorff dimension D-f = 1/2 ( p + 5). By computing the exponent beta using power law fits of Nu similar to Ra-beta, where Nu is the Nusselt number, we find that the heat transport scaling increases with roughness through the top two decades of Ra is an element of [10(8), 10(10)]. For p = -3.0, -2.0 and -1.5 we find beta = 0.288 +/- 0.005, 0.329 +/- 0.006 and 0.352 +/- 0.011, respectively. We also find that the Reynolds number, Re, scales as Re similar to Ra-xi, where xi approximate to 0.57 over Ra is an element of [10(7), 10(10)], for all p used in the study. For a given value of p, the averaged Nu and Re are insensitive to the specific realization of the roughness.

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2020. Vol. 907, article id A12
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Benard convection, turbulent convection, fractals
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-189364DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2020.826ISI: 000596538100001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-189364DiVA, id: diva2:1520492
Available from: 2021-01-20 Created: 2021-01-20 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved

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