Richard J.A.M. Stevens

Physics of Fluids

University of Twente

PhD thesis

Richard J.A.M. Stevens, Rayleigh-Bénard Turbulence, PhD thesis, University of Twente (2011). DOI 10.3990/1.9789036532037. ISBN 978-90-365-3203-7.

The final published thesis and its institutional record are available from the University of Twente.

Supplemental material PhD thesis

Part I - High Rayleigh number thermal convection

Chapter 2 -- Radial boundary layer structure and Nusselt number in Rayleigh-Bénard
Chapter 3 -- Prandtl and Rayleigh number dependence of heat transport in high Rayleigh number thermal convection
Chapter 5 -- Effect of Plumes on Measuring the Large Scale Circulation in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Part II - Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Chapter 7 -- Optimal Prandtl number for heat transfer enhancement
Chapter 10 -- Effect of aspect-ratio on vortex distribution and heat transfer in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard
Chapter 11 -- Boundary layers in rotating weakly turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard
Additional -- Movies showing the effect of rotation in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard

Part III - 2D Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Chapter 14 -- Flow reversals in thermally driven turbulence