Thermally driven turbulent flows are omnipresent in nature and technology. A good
understanding of the physical principles governing such flows is key for numerous problems …

The progress in our understanding of several aspects of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard
convection is reviewed. The focus is on the question of how the Nusselt number and the …

This book presents a systematic introduction, practical meaning, and measurement of
thermo-physical properties (ie viscosity, density, thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity …

The Rayleigh-Bénard theory by Grossmann and Lohse [J. Fluid Mech. 407, 27 (2000)] is
extended towards very large Prandtl numbers Pr. The Nusselt number Nu is found here to …

Birds and gliders exploit warm, rising atmospheric currents (thermals) to reach heights
comparable to low-lying clouds with a reduced expenditure of energy. This strategy of flight …

For very many years, scientists have studied the motion of enclosed fluids heated from
below and cooled from above. 1 The containers for these Rayleigh–Bénard systems 2 have …

We present global and local statistical properties of turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard (RB)
convection at low Prandtl numbers in this work. A series of high resolution two-dimensional …

Numerical experiments on strongly turbulent thermal convection in a slender cylindrical cell
Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2003), vol. 477, pp. 19–49. c 2003 Cambridge University Press DOI …

Turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection is one of the classical problems of fluid dynamics.
For recent reviews we refer to Refs. 1 and 2; for an earlier review to Ref. 3. One of the key …

Abstract The Prandtl and Rayleigh number dependences of the Reynolds number in
turbulent thermal convection following from the unifying theory by Grossmann and Lohse [J …