Ultimate state of thermal convection.
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چکیده
The ultimate regime of thermal convection, the so-called Kraichnan regime [R. H. Kraichnan, Phys. Fluids 5, 1374 (1962)]], hitherto has been elusive. Here numerical evidence for that regime is presented by performing simulations of the bulk of turbulence only, eliminating the thermal and kinetic boundary layers and replacing them with periodic boundary conditions.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 90 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003