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Pis'ma v Zhurnal Èksperimental'noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2011, Volume 93, Issue 6, Pages 363–367
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This article is cited in 25 scientific papers (total in 25 papers)
PLASMA, HYDRO- AND GAS DYNAMICS
Reversals of large-scale circulation in turbulent convection in rectangular cavities
A. Yu. Vasil’evab, P. G. Frickab a Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics UB RAS, Perm
b Perm State University
Abstract:
The behavior of large-scale circulation appearing against the background of Rayleigh-Bénard turbulent convection in rectangular cavities of various geometries (from a thin layer to a cubic cell) has been experimentally investigated. It has been shown that the regimes of large-scale circulation with spontaneous reversals separated by long periods of quasistationary circulation appear both in a limited range of the Rayleigh number and in a limited range of the aspect ratio, which determines the ratio of the thickness of a cell to the side in the circulation plane. A regime without reversals is established in a thick layer, whereas a regime characterized by numerous changes in the direction of circulation, which are not separated by intervals with the stable direction of the large-scale flow, arises in a thin layer. The spectra of oscillations of the amplitude of large-scale circulation have been analyzed. It has been shown that a dominant frequency appears in the spectrum of oscillations of the cubic cell.
Received: 01.02.2011
Citation:
A. Yu. Vasil’ev, P. G. Frick, “Reversals of large-scale circulation in turbulent convection in rectangular cavities”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 93:6 (2011), 363–367; JETP Letters, 93:6 (2011), 330–334
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