Measurements of the local convective heat flux in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
- 30 August 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 70 (2), 026308
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.70.026308
Abstract
A systematic study of the local convective heat transport in turbulent thermal convection is carried out in small-aspect-ratio cells filled with water. The local convective heat flux is obtained from the simultaneous velocity and temperature measurements over varying Rayleigh numbers and spatial positions across the entire convection cell. Large fluctuations of the local convective heat flux are found mainly in the vertical direction and they are determined primarily by the thermal plumes in the system. The experiment reveals the spatial distribution of the local convective heat flux in a closed cell and thus settles a long-debated issue on how heat is transported in small-aspect-ratio cells.Keywords
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