Model of Convective Taylor Columns in Rotating Rayleigh-Benard Convection

被引：71

作者：

Grooms, Ian ^{[1
]}

Julien, Keith ^{[1
]}

Weiss, Jeffrey B. ^{[2
]}

Knobloch, Edgar ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Colorado, Dept Appl Math, Boulder, CO 80309 USA

[2] Univ Colorado, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Boulder, CO 80309 USA

[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2010年 / 104卷 / 22期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

OPEN-OCEAN CONVECTION; SPREADING PHASE; DEEP CONVECTION; FLUID LAYER; TURBULENCE; DYNAMICS; CELLS;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.224501

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

Observations, and laboratory and numerical studies, of fluid flows with strong rotation and thermal forcing often show long-lived convective Taylor columns (CTCs) which carry a large portion of the vertical heat and mass fluxes. However, owing to experimental and numerical challenges, these structures remain poorly understood. Here we present a nonlinear, analytical multiscale model of CTCs in the context of rotating Rayleigh-Benard convection that successfully matches numerical simulations and provides a new multiscale interpretation of the Taylor-Proudman constraint.

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