The geostrophic regime of rapidly rotating turbulent convection

Rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection is a simple model system used to study the interplay of buoyant forcing and rotation. Many recent studies have focused on geostrophic regime turbulent rotating where principal balance forces between Coriolis force pressure gradient. This believed be representative conditions in geophysical astrophysical flows. We hope able extrapolate findings from laboratory experiments numerical simulations towards these large-scale natural In this paper I sketch phase diagram convection, put experimental their place diagrams discuss partitioning into subranges characterised by different flow structures heat transfer scaling. also some complications faced experimentalists, such as constraints dimensions cell, wall modes near sidewall centrifugal buoyancy.