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PHYSICS LETTERS A
Volume 377, Issue 1-2, Pages 83-92Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2012.10.037
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Internally heated convection; High Rayleigh number; Direct numerical simulation
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Funding
- NSF [EMSW21-RTG, DMS-0602235]
- DOE [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
- State of New York
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Two-dimensional direct numerical simulations are conducted for convection sustained by uniform internal heating in a horizontal fluid layer. Top and bottom boundary temperatures are fixed and equal. Prandtl numbers range from 0.01 to 100, and Rayleigh numbers (R) are up to 5 . 10(5) times the critical R at the onset of convection. The asymmetry between upward and downward heat fluxes is non-monotonic in R. In a broad high-R regime, dimensionless mean temperature scales as R-1/5. We discuss the scaling of mean temperature and heat-flux-asymmetry, which we argue are better diagnostic quantities than the conventionally used top and bottom Nusselt numbers. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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