In this study; the Rayleigh–Bénard convection model was established; and a great number of Bénard cells with different numbered vortexes were acquired by numerical simulation. Additionally; the Bénard cell with two vortexes; which appeared in the ste...
In this paper, we focus on the first stage of transition to Rayleigh–Bénard convection in soft-jammed systems (yield stress fluids) confined in a parallelepiped box heated from the bottom. Up to yielding, the material is in a solid-state...
The problem of Rayleigh–Bénard’s natural convection subjected to a temporally periodic cooling condition is solved numerically by the Lattice Boltzmann method with multiple relaxation time (LBM-MRT). The study finds its interest in the field of therm...
Bistability is often encountered in association with dissipative systems far from equilibrium, such as biological, physical, and chemical phenomena. There have been various attempts to theoretically analyze the bistabilities of dissipative systems. H...
A numerical study on the Rayleigh–Benard convection in a shallow cavity filled with different metal-oxide water-based nanofluids is presented through a two-phase model, which accounts for the effects of the Brownian diffusion and thermophoresis...
Inclined Rayleigh–Benard Convection (RBC) is numerically investigated in a two-dimensional vertical cavity; the critical aspect ratio and the critical Rayleigh number are discussed. It is established that beyond the 6500 Rayleigh number, second...
In rotating Rayleigh–Bénard problems, convection with traveling waves may occur near the sidewalls. The Rayleigh number, Taylor number and Prandtl number are involved in this phenomenon, and the convection mode is determined depending on...
The convection control is important in terms of the heat transfer enhancement and improvement of the applied devices and resultant products. In this study, the convection control by a magnetic field from block permanent magnets is numerically investi...
Soft-matter systems when driven out of equilibrium often give rise to structures that usually lie in between the macroscopic scale of the material and microscopic scale of its constituents. In this paper we review three such systems, the two-dimensio...
Radiative natural convection is of vital importance in the process of energy storage, power generation, and thermal storage technology. As the attenuation coefficients of many heat transfer media in these fields are high enough to be considered as op...
The revealing of the turbulence archetypes is one of the fundamental problems in the study of turbulence, which is important not only from the fundamental point of view but also for practical applications, e.g., in geophysics of ocean and lakes. The...
This study aims to consider lattice Boltzmann method (LBM)–magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) data to develop equations to predict the average rate of heat transfer quantitatively. The present approach considers a 2D rectangular cavity with adiabatic s...
Convection induced in a layer of liquid with a top free surface by a distribution of heating elements at the bottom can be seen as a variant of standard Marangoni–Rayleigh–Bénard Convection where in place of a flat boundary at cons...
In this article, we report on numerical simulations of laminar Rayleigh–Bénard convection of air in cuboids. We provide numerical evidence of the existence of multiple steady states when the aspect ratio of the cuboid is sufficiently lar...
This paper studied the Rayleigh–Bénard convection in binary fluid mixtures with a strong Soret effect (separation ratio ψ = − 0.6 ) in a rectangular container heated uniformly from below. We used a high-accuracy compact...
Numerical simulations of rotating two-dimensional turbulent thermal convection on a hemisphere are presented in this paper. Previous experiments on a half soap bubble located on a heated plate have been used for studying thermal convection as well as...
The finite volume method and potential-vorticity vector formalism in their three-dimensional form were used to numerically study the impact of an adiabatic and impermeable vertical barrier on the dispersion of a local aero-contaminant due to the doub...
Entropy generation in two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection at different Prandtl number (Pr) are investigated in the present paper by using the lattice Boltzmann Method. The major concern of the present paper is to explore the effects of Pr on t...
We validate and test two algorithms for the time integration of the Boussinesq form of the Navier—Stokes equations within the Large Eddy Simulation (LES) methodology for turbulent flows. The algorithms are implemented in the OpenFOAM framework....
This study investigated how microparticle size affects natural convective heat transfer in high-viscosity suspensions. Suspensions were formulated using 0.5% xanthan gum and 3% stearic acid, with particle sizes ranging from 120 to 750 nm. Key thermal...
In this paper, a gas-kinetic Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook (BGK) scheme is developed for simulating natural convection in a rotating annulus, which arises in many scientific and engineering fields. Different from most existing methods for the sol...
An analytical study is conducted to examine the influence of thermal gradients and heat sources on the onset of two-component Rayleigh–Bènard (TCRB) convection using the Darcy model. The study takes into account the effects of local ther...
Time evolution features of kinetic and thermal entropy generation rates in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard (RB) convection with mixed insulating and conducting boundary conditions at Ra = 109 are numerically investigated using the lattice Boltzmann...
Statistics of heat transfer in two-dimensional (2D) turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard (RB) convection for Pr=6,20,100 and 106 are investigated using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Our results reveal that the large scale circulation is gradually b...
The multi-phase Rayleigh–Bènard convection has been weakly investigated, even though it plays a leading role in the theoretical and applied physics of the heat transfer enhancement. For the case of moderate turbulent convection, a rather unexpected r...
Liquid crystals, which have both liquid and solid properties, inevitably exhibit fluctuations. Some frustrated liquid-crystalline phases with a hierarchical structure, such as cybotactic nematic, modulated smectic, and bicontinuous cubic phases, are...
The present work highlights the capacity of disparate lattice Boltzmann strategies in simulating natural convection and heat transfer phenomena during the unsteady period of the flow. Within the framework of Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook collision operator,...
The Brinkman–Bénard convection problem is chosen for investigation, along with very general boundary conditions. Using the Maclaurin series, in this paper, we show that it is possible to perform a relatively exact linear stability analys...
The morphology of sub-micron poly(methyl methacrylate) films coated to glass supports by spin coating from toluene is examined using surface profilometry. Wrinkled surfaces with local quasi-sinusoidal periodicity were seen on the surfaces of films wi...
In the present work, the steady-state stationary thermal convection of moist saturated air in a lower atmosphere has been studied theoretically. Thermal convection was considered without accounting for the Coriolis force, and with only the vertical t...
Fluid flows sometimes exhibit symmetricity under certain conditions [...]
Convective Polymerase Chain Reaction (cPCR), owing to its enhanced thermal cycling efficiency, holds promise for application in the next generation of mainstream commercial PCR instruments. Despite its potential, existing capillary-based and annular...
The onset of the thermal instability is investigated in a porous channel with plane parallel boundaries saturated by a non–Newtonian shear–thinning fluid and subject to a horizontal throughflow. The Ellis model is adopted to describe the...
Data assimilation in chaotic regimes is challenging, and among the challenging aspects is placement of observations to induce convexity of the cost function in the space of control. This problem is examined by using Saltzman’s spectral model of...
In this work, an alternate Schwarz domain decomposition method is proposed to solve a Rayleigh–Bénard problem. The problem is modeled with the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations coupled with a heat equation in a rectangular dom...
Tropical cyclones have long been known to be powered by turbulent enthalpy fluxes from the ocean’s surface and slowed by turbulent momentum fluxes into the surface. Here, we review evidence that the development and structure of these storms are...
We present the results of direct numerical simulations of power spectral densities for kinetic energy, convective entropy, and heat flux for unsteady Rayleigh–Bénard magnetoconvection in the frequency space. For larger values of frequency, the power...
The onset of Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a horizontally unbounded saturated porous medium is considered. Particular attention is given to the stability of weakly nonlinear convection between two plane horizontal surfaces heated from below. The prim...
While thermal convection cells exhibit left–right and top–bottom symmetries at low Rayleigh numbers (Ra), the emergence of coherent flow structures, such as elliptical large-scale circulation in Rayleigh–Bénard convection (RB...
We perform a computer simulation of the reaction-diffusion and convection that takes place in Rayleigh–Bénard and Bénard–Poiseuille regimes. The lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) is used along with the Boussinesq approximation to solve the non-linear...
In this article, a study on the stability of Walter-B viscoelastic fluid in the highly permeable porous medium under the rotational speed modulation is presented. The impact of rotational modulation on heat transport is performed through a weakly non...
Fe3O4/H2O nanofluid attracts many researchers’ attention due to its considerable potential for practical applications. This work is focused on the study of heat transfer efficiency in Fe3O4/H2O nanofluids with nanoparticles (NPs) of mean diamet...
The proposed planer layer dynamo physical model has real-world applications, especially in the Earth’s liquid core. Thus, in this paper, an attempt is made to understand the finite amplitude convection when there exists a coupling between the L...
In order to support the future thermal control and energy conservation design for the Mars rover, numerical studies on natural convection in CO2 enclosures on Mars’ surface were conducted for both horizontal and vertical enclosures. The parameters ar...
The present study aims to probe the role of an influential factor heretofore scarcely considered in earlier studies in the field of thermovibrational convection, that is, the specific time-varying shape of the forcing used to produce fluid motion und...
Thermovibrational flow can be seen as a variant of standard thermogravitational convection where steady gravity is replaced by a time-periodic acceleration. As in the parent phenomena, this type of thermal flow is extremely sensitive to the relative...
Application of nanofluids is aimed at enhancing the heat transfer performance the same as the utilization of a strong magnetic field. The potential of the combined effect of these passive and active methods was analyzed numerically. The silver nanofl...
A simple model of nonlinear salt-finger convection in two dimensions is derived and studied. The model is valid in the limit of a small solute to heat diffusivity ratio and a large density ratio, which is relevant to both oceanographic and astrophysic...
We present a numerical study of axisymmetric flow in a rotating annulus in which local thermal forcing, via a heated annular ring on the outside of the base and a cooled circular disk in the centre of the top surface, drives convection. This new conf...
Rayleigh–Bénard convection is a fundamental fluid dynamics phenomenon that significantly influences heat transfer in various natural and industrial processes, such as geophysical dynamics in the Earth’s liquid core and the performa...
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