Film boiling on a horizontal elliptical tube immersed in external flowing nitrogen liquid is investigated in the present paper. The isothermal wall temperature is high enough to induce turbulent film boiling, and then a continuous vapor film runs upward over the surface. The high velocity of the flowing saturated liquid at the boundary layer is determined by potential flow theory. In addition, ...

The magnetic fields of Earth and other planets are generated by turbulent convection in the vast oceans of liquid metal within them. Although direct observation is not possible, this liquid metal circulation is thought to be dominated by the controlling influences of planetary rotation and magnetic fields through the Coriolis and Lorentz forces. Theory famously predicts that planetary dynamo sy...

We have calculated the radial non-adiabatic p-mode oscillations of the solar models. Based on a statistical theory of non-local convection, both the thermodynamic and kinetic couplings between convection and oscillations are finely treated. The turbulent pressure, turbulent viscosity, turbulent thermal flux and turbulent kinetic flux are all self-consistently included in the equations. The depa...

Space-time correlations or Eulerian two-point two-time correlations of fluctuating velocities are analytically and numerically investigated in turbulent shear flows. An elliptic model for the space-time correlations in the inertial range is developed from the similarity assumptions on the isocorrelation contours: they share a uniform preference direction and a constant aspect ratio. The similar...

The origins of solar magnetism lie below the visible surface of the Sun, in the highly turbulent convection zone. Turbulent convection operates in conjunction with rotational shear, global circulations and intricate boundary layers to produce the rich diversity of magnetic activity we observe. Here, we review recent insights into the operation of the solar dynamo obtained from solar and stellar...

Magnetic fluctuations generated by a tangling of the mean magnetic field by velocity fluctuations are studied in a developed turbulent convection with large magnetic Reynolds numbers. We show that the energy of magnetic fluctuations depends on the magnetic Reynolds number only when the mean magnetic field is smaller than B(eq)/4Rm(1/4), where B(eq) is the equipartition mean magnetic field deter...

The indoor airflow with a mixed natural/forced convection was numerically calculated using the laminar and turbulent approach. The Boussinesq approximation was considered for a simplification of the mathematical model and calculations. The results obtained, such as mean velocity fields, were successfully compared with experimental PIV flow visualizations. The effect of the distance between the ...

A theoretical approach proposed in Phys. Rev. E 66, 066305 (2002) is developed further to investigate formation of large-scale coherent structures in a non-rotating turbulent convection via excitation of a large-scale instability. In particular, the convective-wind instability that causes formation of large-scale coherent motions in the form of cells, can be excited in a shear-free regime. It w...

Coherent large-scale circulations of turbulent thermal convection in air have been studied experimentally in a rectangular box heated from below and cooled from above using Particle Image Velocimetry. The hysteresis phenomenon in turbulent convectionwas found by varying the temperature difference between the bottom and the top walls of the chamber (the Rayleigh number was changed within the ran...

A numerical study was carried out to investigate the thermal and flow fields of a two-dimensional vented cavity subjected forced convection turbulent flow. The with three distinct configurations inlet outlet ports having different cases top surfaces, i.e. flat, semi-elliptical semi-circular studied numerically for range Reynolds numbers. objective is effect curved wall surface on heat transfer ...