Convection in an ideal gas at high Rayleigh numbers.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
; 84(2 Pt 2): 026323, 2011 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
Numerical simulations of convection in a layer filled with ideal gas are presented. The control parameters are chosen such that there is a significant variation of density of the gas in going from the bottom to the top of the layer. The relations between the Rayleigh, Peclet, and Nusselt numbers depend on the density stratification. It is proposed to use a data reduction which accounts for the variable density by introducing into the scaling laws an effective density. The relevant density is the geometric mean of the maximum and minimum densities in the layer. A good fit to the data is then obtained with power laws with the same exponent as for fluids in the Boussinesq limit. Two relations connect the top and bottom boundary layers The kinetic energy densities computed from free fall velocities are equal at the top and bottom, and the products of free fall velocities and maximum horizontal velocities are equal for both boundaries.
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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
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BIOFISICA
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FISIOLOGIA
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2011
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Article
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Alemania