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On the centrifugal effect in turbulent rotating thermal convection: onset and heat transport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2022

Yun-Bing Hu Open the ORCID record for Yun-Bing Hu [Opens in a new window] ,
Yi-Chao Xie Open the ORCID record for Yi-Chao Xie [Opens in a new window]  and
Ke-Qing Xia Open the ORCID record for Ke-Qing Xia [Opens in a new window]
Yun-Bing Hu
Affiliation:
Center for Complex Flows and Soft Matter Research, and Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, PR China Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, PR China
Yi-Chao Xie
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, and School of Aerospace, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, PR China
Ke-Qing Xia*
Affiliation:
Center for Complex Flows and Soft Matter Research, and Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, PR China
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†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

The effect of centrifugal force in turbulent rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection (RRBC) is studied experimentally in an aspect-ratio $\varGamma =1$ cylindrical convection cell and in the ranges of the Froude number $0.004\leq Fr \leq 0.363$ and the Rayleigh number $2.8\times 10^8 \leq Ra \leq 9.5\times 10^9$, and with the Prandtl number fixed at $Pr=4.34$. We use the bulk temperature anomaly to determine the onset Froude number $Fr_c$, beyond which the centrifugal effects cannot be regarded as insignificant. It is found that $Fr_c$ depends on $Ra$ as $Fr_c\sim Ra^{0.53}$, which may be understood qualitatively by the idea of local force balance. For $Fr>Fr_c$, the centrifugal effect is more pronounced for smaller $Ra$, which is also found for larger constant $1/Ro$. This implies that the response of the system to the centrifugal force depends on the flow states, which, in RRBC, is mainly determined by the competition between the buoyancy and Coriolis forces. Detailed analysis of the sidewall temperature signal shows results consistent with those obtained from the bulk temperature. Based on the above results, we propose a different division of the $1/Ro$–$Fr$ phase space than previously suggested. For the heat transport, the results under fixed $1/Ro$ show well-defined $Nu$–$Ra$ scalings, which can provide a better prediction for the heat transport when extrapolating to the unexplored regions in the phase space.

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Turbulent Flows: Rotating turbulence Turbulent Flows: Turbulent convection
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 938 , 10 May 2022 , R1
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