Ultimate-state transition of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Guenter Ahlers,1,2,* Eberhard Bodenschatz,2,3,4,* and Xiaozhou He5,* 1Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA 2Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), 37077 Göttingen, Germany 3Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 4Laboratory of Atomic and Solid-State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA 5Institute for Turbulence-Noise-Vibration Interaction and Control, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China (Received 6 January 2017; published 3 May 2017)