Ko, Tze Cheung = 均勻湍流對流殼模型內的熱傳送及雷諾數標度律 / 高子翔. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-78). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Ko, Tze Cheung = Jun yun tuan liu dui liu ke mo xing nei de re chuan song ji Leinuo shu biao du lü / Gao Zixiang. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Description of Rayleigh-Benard convection --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Interesting issues in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection --- p.3 / Chapter 2 --- Earlier studies of heat transport in Rayleigh-Benard convection --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- Marginal stability arguments --- p.7 / Chapter 2.2 --- The Chicago mixing zone model --- p.8 / Chapter 2.3 --- Shraiman and Siggia theory --- p.10 / Chapter 2.4 --- Grossmann and Lohse theory --- p.12 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Estimating the kinetic dissipation rates due to boundary layer and bulk --- p.13 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Estimating the thermal dissipation rates due to boundary layer and bulk --- p.13 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- The four regimes --- p.15 / Chapter 2.5 --- The asymptotic limit of very high Ra --- p.17 / Chapter 3 --- The shell model used --- p.20 / Chapter 3.1 --- Background of shell models of turbulence --- p.20 / Chapter 3.2 --- The model used --- p.22 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- The Brandenburg model --- p.22 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- The requirement of a large scale drag term --- p.23 / Chapter 3.3 --- Previous work on the Brandenburg model --- p.24 / Chapter 4 --- "Definitions of Ra, Nu, and Re and two exact results" --- p.26 / Chapter 4.1 --- Heat transport study using shell model --- p.26 / Chapter 4.2 --- Two exact results --- p.28 / Chapter 5 --- Results and discussions --- p.29 / Chapter 5.1 --- Parameters used --- p.29 / Chapter 5.2 --- "Nu(Ra,Pr) and Re(Ra,Pr) scaling results" --- p.29 / Chapter 5.3 --- "Scaling results of ε, εdrag and x" --- p.32 / Chapter 5.4 --- Physical meaning of the drag term --- p.35 / Chapter 5.5 --- Understanding the dependence of ε on Re --- p.36 / Chapter 5.6 --- Understanding the dependence of x and εdrag on Re and Pr --- p.40 / Chapter 5.7 --- The form of the added drag term --- p.41 / Chapter 6 --- Possible changes of Nu and Re due to non-Boussinesq effects --- p.43 / Chapter 6.1 --- Background --- p.43 / Chapter 6.2 --- Method of study --- p.44 / Chapter 6.3 --- Effects due to the temperature dependence of kinematic viscosity --- p.45 / Chapter 6.4 --- Effects due to the temperature dependence of thermal diffusivity --- p.50 / Chapter 6.5 --- Effects due to the temperature dependence of volume expansion coefficient --- p.55 / Chapter 6.6 --- Understanding the scaling behavior under non-Boussinesq effects --- p.61 / Chapter 6.6.1 --- Scaling behavior of x on Re --- p.61 / Chapter 6.6.2 --- Scaling behavior of εtotai on Re --- p.65 / Chapter 6.6.3 --- Scaling behavior of Nu and Re on Ra --- p.66 / Chapter 6.7 --- Summary and future work --- p.68 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.69 / Chapter A --- Height independence of Nu for homogeneous turbulent convection with periodic boundary conditions --- p.73 / Chapter B --- "Height independence of (uz)A,t for homogeneous turbulent convection with periodic boundary conditions" --- p.75 / Bibliography --- p.76

This dissertation aims to use theory and numerical simulations to quantify the propagation of fronts, which consist of autocatalytic reaction fronts, fronts with feedback and pattern forming fronts in Rayleigh-Bénard convection. The velocity and geometry of fronts are quantified for fronts traveling through straight parallel convection rolls, spatiotemporally chaotic rolls, and weakly turbulent rolls. The front velocity is found to be dependent on the competing influence of the orientation of the convection rolls and the geometry of the wrinkled front interface which is quantified as a fractal having a non-integer box-counting dimension. Front induced solutal and thermal feedback to the convective flow field is then studied by solving an exothermic autocatalytic reaction where the products and the reactants can vary in density. A single self-organized fluid roll propagating with the front is created by the solutal feedback while a pair of propagating counterrotating convection rolls are formed due to heat release from the reaction. Depending on the relative change in density induced by the solutal and thermal feedback, cooperative and antagonistic feedback scenarios are quantified. It is found that front induced feedback enhances the front velocity and reactive mixing length and induces spatiotemporal oscillations in the front and fluid dynamics. Using perturbation expansions, a transition in symmetry and scaling behavior of the front and fluid dynamics for larger values of feedback is studied. The front velocity, flow structure, front geometry and reactive mixing length scales for a range of solutal and thermal feedback are quantified. Lastly, pattern forming fronts of convection rolls are studied and the wavelength and velocity selected by the front near the onset of convective instability are investigated. This research was partially supported by DARPA Grant No. HR0011-16-2-0033. The numerical computations were done using the resources of the Advanced Research Computing center at Virginia Tech. / Doctor of Philosophy / Quantification of transport of reacting species in the presence of a flow field is important in many problems of engineering and science. A front is described as a moving interface between two different states of a system such as between the products and reactants in a chemical reaction. An example is a line of wildfire which separates burnt and fresh vegetation and propagates until all the fresh vegetation is consumed. In this dissertation the propagation of reacting fronts in the presence of convective flow fields of varying complexity is studied. It is found that the spatial variations in a convective flow field affects the burning and propagation of fronts by reorienting the geometry of the front interface. The velocity of the propagating fronts and its dependence on the spatial variation of the flow field is quantified. In certain scenarios the propagating front feeds back to the flow by inducing a local flow that interacts with the background convection. The rich and emergent dynamics resulting from this front induced feedback is quantified and it is found that feedback enhances the burning and propagation of fronts. Finally, the properties of pattern forming fronts are studied for fronts which leave a trail of spatial structures behind as they propagate for example in dendritic solidification and crystal growth. Pattern forming fronts of convection rolls are studied and the velocity of the front and spatial distribution of the patterns left behind by the front is quantified. This research was partially supported by DARPA Grant No. HR0011-16-2-0033. The numerical computations were done using the resources of the Advanced Research Computing center at Virginia Tech.

There are still many open questions regarding spatiotemporal chaos although many well developed theories exist for chaos in time. Rayleigh-B'enard convection is a paradigmatic example of spatiotemporal chaos that is also experimentally accessible. Discoveries uncovered using numerics can often be compared with experiments which can provide new physical insights. Lyapunov diagnostics can provide important information about the dynamics of small perturbations for chaotic systems. Covariant Lyapunov vectors reveal the true direction of perturbation growth and decay. The degree of hyperbolicity can also be quantified by the covariant Lyapunov vectors. To know whether a dynamical system is hyperbolic is important for the development of a theoretical understanding. In this thesis, the degree of hyperbolicity is calculated for chaotic Rayleigh-B'enard convection. For the values of the Rayleigh number explored, it is shown that the dynamics are non-hyperbolic. The spatial distribution of the covariant Lyapunov vectors is different for the different Lyapunov vectors. Localization is used to quantify this variation. The spatial localization of the covariant Lyapunov vectors has a decreasing trend as the order of the Lyapunov vector increases. The spatial localization of the covariant Lyapunov vectors are found to be related to the instantaneous Lyapunov exponents. The correlation is stronger as the order of the Lyapunov vector decreases. The covariant Lyapunov vectors are also computed using a spectral element approach. This allows an exploration of the covariant Lyapunov vectors in larger domains and for experimental conditions. The finite conductivity and finite thickness of the lateral boundaries of an experimental convection domain is also studied. Results are presented for the variation of the Nusselt number and fractal dimension for different boundary conditions. The fractal dimension changes dramatically with the variation of the finite conductivity. / Ph. D. / There are still many open questions regarding chaos. Rayleigh-Bènard convection is a type of natural convection which occurs when a fluid is placed between a hot bottom plate and a cold top plate. Rayleigh-Bènard convection is a classical model to explore chaos in space and time. The major application of Rayleigh-Bènard convection is weather prediction which is an extremely difficult problem of intense interest. The governing equations can only be solved using supercomputing resources. The main reason for this difficulty is the presence of a very large number of degrees of freedom that may influence the weather. To reduce the number of degrees of freedom by only including ones that contribute significantly is a difficult problem. In this thesis, vectors describing the growth of disturbances have been calculated for Rayleigh-Bènard convection. These vectors give us information about which regions in space are more important than others. For weather example, the knowledge of these vectors would tell us which regions are important. With this information, scientists and engineers can focus on the important regions and possibly improve their long term predictions. These vectors also yield the number of degrees of freedom to characterize a chaotic system, on average. In this thesis, this number is also explored for Rayleigh-Bènard convection. This thesis extends the calculation of these vectors to a realistic fluid model which gives us new insights into fundamental questions about chaos in space and time.

In many systems, instabilities can lead to time-dependent behavior, and instabilities can act as mechanisms for sustained chaos; an understanding of the dynamical modes governing instability is thus essential for prediction and/or control in such systems. In this thesis work, we have developed an approach toward characterizing instabilities quantitatively, from experiments on the prototypical Rayleigh-Bénard convection system. We developed an experimental technique for preparing a given convection pattern using rapid optical actuation of pressurized SF6, a greenhouse gas. Real-time analysis of convection patterns was developed as part of the implementation of closed-loop control of straight roll patterns. Feedback control of the patterns via actuation was used to guide patterns to various system instabilities. Controlled, spatially localized perturbations were applied to the prepared states, which were observed to excite the dominant system modes. We extracted the spatial structure and growth rates of these modes from analysis of the pattern evolutions. The lifetimes of excitations were also measured, near a particular instability; a critical wavenumber was found from the observed dynamical slowing near the bifurcation. We will also describe preliminary results of using a state estimation algorithm (LETKF) on experimentally prepared non-periodic patterns in a cylindrical convection cell.

Tam Wai Shing = 穩態環流的熱傳送與縱橫比之關係及其與湍流狀態的瑞利-伯纳德對流之聯繫 / 譚偉誠. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-61). / Text in English; abstracts in English and Chinese. / Tam Wai Shing = Wen tai huan liu de re chuan song yu zong heng bi zhi guan xi ji qi yu tuan liu zhuang tai de Ruili-Bonade dui liu zhi lian xi / Tan Weicheng. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Review of the theoretical studies of heat transport by turbulent convection --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- The marginal stability arguments --- p.7 / Chapter 2.2 --- Chicago mixing zone model --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Shraiman and Siggia theory --- p.10 / Chapter 2.4 --- Grossmann and Lohse Theory --- p.12 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Estimation of the kinetic dissipation --- p.13 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Estimation of the thermal dissipation --- p.14 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- The four regimes --- p.15 / Chapter 3 --- Aspect-ratio dependence: The problem studied --- p.19 / Chapter 3.1 --- The velocity field --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Incompressible flow --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Large-scale circulating flow --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- No-slip boundary conditions --- p.22 / Chapter 3.2 --- The functions f(x) and g(y) --- p.23 / Chapter 3.3 --- Boundary conditions for the temperature field --- p.23 / Chapter 3.4 --- Important parameters in the numerical calculation --- p.24 / Chapter 4 --- The numerical calculations --- p.31 / Chapter 5 --- Results and discussions --- p.34 / Chapter 5.1 --- Nu-Г Relationship --- p.38 / Chapter 5.2 --- Nu - Pe Relationship --- p.41 / Chapter 6 --- Implications for heat transport by Rayleigh-Benard convection --- p.49 / Chapter 6.1 --- Nu-Ra relationship --- p.50 / Chapter 6.2 --- Comparison with recent experimental results --- p.52 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusions --- p.57 / Bibliography --- p.59

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We examine the Rayleigh–Bénard convection as modelled by the Boussinesq equation. Our aim is at deriving bounds for the heat enhancement factor in the vertical direction, the Nusselt number, which reproduce physical scalings. In the first part of the dissertation, we examine the the simpler model when the acceleration of the fluid is neglected (Pr=∞) and prove the non-optimality of the temperature background field method by showing a lower bound for the Nusselt number associated to it. In the second part we consider the full model (Pr<∞) and we prove a new upper bound which improve the existing ones (for large Pr numbers) and catches a transition at Pr~Ra^(1/3).

Le présent manuscrit contribue à l’étude des écoulements liquides dans des milieux poreux artificiels, plus spécifiquement dans les cas où la matrice poreuse présente des gradients de perméabilité importants, par exemple dans un milieu stratifié ou fracturé. Nous étudions l’influence de tels milieux poreux hétérogènes sur différents types d’écoulements. Ce travail est principalement expérimental, mettant en oeuvre une technique optique non-intrusive appelée effet Christiansen. Cette méthode permet de déterminer quantitativement des distributions soit de température, soit de concentration au sein d’un milieu poreux. <p><p>Trois problèmes physiques sont étudiés: tout d’abord le problème de Horton-Rodgers-Lapwood qui est l’équivalent du très connu problème de Rayleigh-Bénard mais pour un milieu poreux, ensuite les phénomènes de dispersion hydrodynamique que l’on rencontre dans des écoulements multiphasiques. Cette dispersion hydrodynamique est essentiellement envisagée comme un processus macroscopique de diffusion, renforcé par rapport à la diffusion moléculaire que l’on rencontre en milieu fluide libre. Enfin, le troisième problème englobe les écoulements capillaires en milieux poreux en environnement de pesanteur réduite. Dans le cas d’écoulements immiscibles multiphasiques, il faut prendre en considération l’effet de la tension superficielle aux interfaces. Comme les effets capillaires sont partiellement masqués par les effets de pesanteur durant des expériences au sol, une étude précise des effets de mouillage dans ces écoulements en milieu poreux nécessite de les découpler au maximum des autres effets physiques. Un programme de recherche en microgravité a été réalisé, et un nouveau modèle mathématique qui prend en compte l’influence des forces capillaires a été élaboré dans le cadre d’une collaboration entre le Service de Chimie-Physique et le Prof. N.N. Smirnov du Département de Mécanique et de Mathématique de l’Université d’Etat de Moscou.<p><p><p>La structure de ce travail part du Chapitre 1, qui présente essentiellement les milieux poreux et leurs spécificités. Ce dernier introduit le formalisme et les concepts nécessaires au traitement des trois problèmes de recherche envisagés. Le Chapitre 2 présente ensuite une étude bibliographique du problème de Horton-Rodgers-Lapwood et des phénomènes de dispersion hydrodynamique en milieux poreux. Le Chapitre 3 est consacré à l’effet Christiansen. Le Chapitre 4 présente les dispositifs de laboratoire mis au point, ainsi qu’une compilation des résultats expérimentaux obtenus. Les problèmes d’écoulements capillaires sont exposés au Chapitre 5, étant donné que la technique expérimentale est différente de celle basée sur l’effet Christiansen. Ce Chapitre compare le nouveau modèle mathématique aux résultats des expériences menées en microgravité durant de nombreuses campagnes de vols paraboliques. Le Chapitre 6 referme ce travail par ses conclusions et perspectives. / Doctorat en sciences appliquées / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

<p align="justify">This work is a theoretical contribution to the study of thermo-hydrodynamic instabilities in fluids submitted to surface-tension (Marangoni) and buoyancy (Rayleigh) effects in layered (Benard) configurations. The driving constraint consists in a thermal (or a concentrational) gradient orthogonal to the plane of the layer(s).</p><p><p align="justify">Linear, weakly nonlinear as well as strongly nonlinear analyses are carried out, with emphasis on high Prandtl (or Schmidt) number fluids, although some results are also given for low-Prandtl number liquid metals. Attention is mostly devoted to the mechanisms responsible for the onset of complex spatio-temporal behaviours in these systems, as well as to the theoretical explanation of some existing experimental results. </p><p><p align="justify">As far as linear stability analyses (of the diffusive reference state) are concerned, a number of different effects are studied, such as Benard convection in two layers coupled at an interface (for which a general classification of instability modes is proposed), surface deformation effects and phase-change effects (non-equilibrium evaporation). Moreover, a number of different monotonous and oscillatory instability modes (leading respectively to patterns and waves in the nonlinear regime) are identified. In the case of oscillatory modes in a liquid layer with deformable interface heated from above, our analysis generalises and clarifies earlier works on the subject. A new Rayleigh-Marangoni oscillatory mode is also described for a liquid layer with an undeformable interface heated from above (coupling between internal and surface waves).</p><p><p align="justify">Weakly nonlinear analyses are then presented, first for monotonous modes in a 3D system. Emphasis is placed on the derivation of amplitude (Ginzburg-Landau) equations, with universal structure determined by the general symmetry properties of the physical system considered. These equations are thus valid outside the context of hydrodynamic instabilities, although they generally depend on a certain number of numerical coefficients which are calculated for the specific convective systems studied. The nonlinear competitions of patterns such as convective rolls, hexagons and squares is studied, showing the preference for hexagons with upflow at the centre in the surface-tension-driven case (and moderate Prandtl number), and of rolls in the buoyancy-induced case.</p><p><p align="justify">A transition to square patterns recently observed in experiments is also explained by amplitude equation analysis. The role of several fluid properties and of heat transfer conditions at the free interface is examined, for one-layer and two-layer systems. We also analyse modulation effects (spatial variation of the envelope of the patterns) in hexagonal patterns, leading to the description of secondary instabilities of supercritical hexagons (Busse balloon) in terms of phase diffusion equations, and of pentagon-heptagon defects in the hexagonal structures. In the frame of a general non-variational system of amplitude equations, we show that the pentagon-heptagon defects are generally not motionless, and may even lead to complex spatio-temporal dynamics (via a process of multiplication of defects in hexagonal structures).</p> <p><p align="justify">The onset of waves is also studied in weakly nonlinear 2D situations. The competition between travelling and standing waves is first analysed in a two-layer Rayleigh-Benard system (competition between thermal and mechanical coupling of the layers), in the vicinity of special values of the parameters for which a multiple (Takens-Bogdanov) bifurcation occurs. The behaviours in the vicinity of this point are numerically explored. Then, the interaction between waves and steady patterns with different wavenumbers is analysed. Spatially quasiperiodic (mixed) states are found to be stable in some range when the interaction between waves and patterns is non-resonant, while several transitions to chaotic dynamics (among which an infinite sequence of homoclinic bifurcations) occur when it is resonant. Some of these results have quite general validity, because they are shown to be entirely determined by quadratic interactions in amplitude equations.</p><p><p align="justify">Finally, models of strongly nonlinear surface-tension-driven convection are derived and analysed, which are thought to be representative of the transitions to thermal turbulence occurring at very high driving gradient. The role of the fastest growing modes (intrinsic length scale) is discussed, as well as scalings of steady regimes and their secondary instabilities (due to instability of the thermal boundary layer), leading to chaotic spatio-temporal dynamics whose preliminary analysis (energy spectrum) reveals features characteristic of hydrodynamic turbulence. Some of the (2D and 3D) results presented are in qualitative agreement with experiments (interfacial turbulence).</p><p><p><p> / Doctorat en sciences appliquées / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Shang Xiandong. / "September 2002." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-146). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.