In the solar convection zone, rotation couples with intensely turbulent convection to build global-scale flows of differential rotation and meridional circulation. Our sun must have rotated more rapidly in its past, as is suggested by observations of many rapidly rotating young solar-type stars. Here we explore the effects of more rapid rotation on the patterns of convection in such stars and t...

Thermal convection in a dielectric fluid layer between two parallel plates subjected to an alternating electric field and a temperature gradient is investigated under microgravity conditions. A thermoelectric coupling resulting from the thermal variation of the electric permittivity of the fluid produces the dielectrophoretic (DEP) body force, which can be regarded as thermal buoyancy due to an...

Water vapor in the lower stratosphere exhibits localized maximum values during Northern Hemisphere summer in the Asian and North American (NA) monsoon regions. The processes maintaining these maxima are not well understood. We analyze the variability of water vapor in the monsoon regions based on Aura Microwave Limb Sounder satellite observations during 2005–2013 and quantify links to deep conv...

Convective heat transfer about an isothermal, cylindrical extrudate of constant diameter, issuing continuously from an extrusion die, is investigated numerically, using a commercial CFD software package. The hot extrudate is assumed to move vertically downward, thus giving rise to a combined regime of forced and free convection in the surrounding fluid. Prandtl number of 0.707, corresponding to...

We report a combined theoretical and experimental investigation on the near field acoustic levitation (NFAL). In NFAL a disk is levitated at a height much smaller than the acoustic wavelength. The levitation force is induced by the gas squeeze film between the sound radiation surface and the levitated disk. By taking into account the flexural vibration of the sound radiation surface as well as ...

High-power lithium-ion capacitors (LiC) are hybrid energy storage systems (EES) with the combined benefits of batteries (LiB) and supercapacitors, such as high specific energy, power, a long lifetime. Such advanced technology can be used in high-power applications when charging discharging demanded. Nevertheless, their performance lifetime highly depend on temperature. In this context, paper pr...

In this paper we present a numerical model for a problem of coupled flow and transport in porous media. We use a barycenter based finite volume method, which, in the case of convection dominated transport, is combined with suitable upwind methods, in order to avoid numerical instabilities. We present some relevant and new numerical results for the Elder problem, which offer a better understandi...

A fully algebraic approach to the design of nonlinear high-resolution schemes is revisited and extended to quadratic finite elements. The matrices resulting from a standard Galerkin discretization are modified so as to satisfy sufficient conditions of the discrete maximum principle for nodal values. In order to provide mass conservation, the perturbation terms are assembled from skew-symmetric ...

Investigation of stratification in marine environments is always considered by researchers. In this study double-diffusive convection and stratification in the Bab el Mandeb strait is investigated by analyzing of field data. Measurement of seawater temperature and salinity from ARGO project (2009 to2014) and also R-V Knorr (2001) cruise with the daily average of seawater temperature and salinit...