https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2012-12058-1
Colloquium
New perspectives in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
1
Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d’Italie, F-69364, Lyon, France
2
Institut für Thermo- und Fluiddynamik, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Postfach 100565, D-98684, Ilmenau, Germany
* e-mail: fchilla@ens-lyon.fr
** e-mail: joerg.schumacher@tu-ilmenau.de
Received:
15
May
2012
Revised:
15
June
2012
Accepted:
15
June
2012
Published online:
13
July
2012
Recent experimental, numerical and theoretical advances in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection are presented. Particular emphasis is given to the physics and structure of the thermal and velocity boundary layers which play a key role for the better understanding of the turbulent transport of heat and momentum in convection at high and very high Rayleigh numbers. We also discuss important extensions of Rayleigh-Bénard convection such as non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq effects and convection with phase changes.
Key words: Flowing matter: Nonlinear Physics
© EDP Sciences, SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2012
