Numerical study of heat-transfer in two- and quasi-two-dimensional Rayleigh-Benard convection

被引:8
作者
Gao, Zhen-Yuan [1 ]
Luo, Jia-Hui [1 ]
Bao, Yun [1 ]
机构
[1] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Dept Mech, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Rayleigh-Benard convection; Nusselt number; turbulence; thermal dissipation; TURBULENT THERMAL-CONVECTION; BOUNDARY-LAYER STRUCTURE; NUMBER; PRANDTL; TRANSPORT;
D O I
10.1088/1674-1056/27/10/104702
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
A detailed comparative numerical study between the two-dimensional (2D) and quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) turbulent Rayleigh-B6nard (RB) convection on flow state, heat transfer, and thermal dissipation rate (TDR) is made. The Rayleigh number (Ra) in our simulations ranges up to 5 x 10(10) and Prandtl number (Pr) is fixed to be 0.7. Our simulations are conducted on the Tianhe-2 supercomputer. We use an in-house code with high parallelization efficiency, based on the extended PDM-DNS scheme. The comparison shows that after a certain Ra, plumes with round shape, which is called the "temperature islands", develop and gradually dominate the flow field in the 2D case. On the other hand, in quasi-2D cases, plumes remain mushroom-like. This difference in morphology becomes more significant as Ra increases, as with the motion of plumes near the top and bottom plates. The exponents of the power-law relation between the Nusselt number (Nu) and Ra are 0.3 for both two cases, and the fitting pre-factors are 0.099 and 0.133 for 2D and quasi-2D respectively, indicating a clear difference in magnitude of the heat transfer rate between two cases. To understand this difference in the magnitude of Nu, we compare the vertical profile of the horizontally averaged TDR for both two cases. It is found that the profiles of both cases are nearly the same in the bulk, but they vary near boundaries. Comparing the bifurcation height z(b) with the thermal boundary layer thickness Se, it shows that z(b) < delta(0) (3D) < delta(0) (2D) and all three heights obey a universal power-law relation z similar to Ra-0.30. In order to quantify the difference further, we separate the domain by z(b), i.e., define the area between two z(b) (near top and bottom plates respectively) as the "mid region" and the rest as the "side region", and integrate TDR in corresponding regions. By comparing the integral it is found that most of the difference in TDR between two cases, which is connected to the heat transfer rate, occurs within the thermal boundary layers. We also compare the ratio of contributions to total heat transfer in BL-bulk separation and side-mid separation.
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