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How heat transfer efficiencies in turbulent thermal convection depend on internal flow modes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2011

KE-QING XIA
KE-QING XIA*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
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Abstract

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How internal flow states can influence the global transport properties in a turbulent system has always been an intriguing question. Weiss & Ahlers (J. Fluid Mech., this issue, vol. 676, 2011, pp. 5–40) have provided an example by measuring the instantaneous Nusselt number in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection and correlating it to the different modes of large-scale flow.

JFM classification

Turbulent Flows: Turbulent convection
Type
Focus on Fluids
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 676 , 10 June 2011 , pp. 1 - 4
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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