Supplemental material PhD thesis

Additional -- Simulations showing the effect of rotation in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard

Movie A.1. Temperature field for a simulations at Ra = 1 x 10⁸, Pr = 6.4, and 1/Ro=∞ in a Γ = 1.0 sample on a 257 x 129 x 257 grid. The left panel indicates the temperature field at midheight and in the right panel at four horizontal planes inside the thermal boundary layer. The dimensionless time is indicated in the top of the movies. Details about the simulations can be found in Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 044502 (2009), and Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024503 (2009), These movies are included in the video-abstract of R.J.A.M. Stevens, H.J.H. Clercx, D. Lohse, Optimal Prandtl number for heat transfer enhancement in rotating turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection, New J. Phys. 12, 075005 (2010).

Movie A.2. Temperature field for a simulations at Ra = 1 x 10⁸, Pr = 6.4 and 1/Ro=0.30, in a Γ = 1.0 sample on a 257 x 129 x 257 grid. The left panel indicates the temperature field at midheight and in the right panel at four different horizontal planes inside the thermal boundary layer. The dimensionless time is indicated in the top of the movies. Details about the simulations can be found in Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 044502 (2009), and Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 024503 (2009), These movies are included in the video-abstract of R.J.A.M. Stevens, H.J.H. Clercx, D. Lohse, Optimal Prandtl number for heat transfer enhancement in rotating turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection, New J. Phys. 12, 075005 (2010).