Wall-sheared thermal convection: heat transfer enhancement and turbulence relaminarization
arXiv:2301.00353 · doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.173
Abstract
We studied the flow organization and heat transfer properties in two-dimensional and three-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard cells that are imposed with different types of wall shear. The external wall shear is added with the motivation of manipulating flow mode to control heat transfer efficiency. We imposed three types of wall shear that may facilitate the single-roll, the horizontally stacked double-roll, and the vertically stacked double-roll flow modes, respectively. Direct numerical simulations are performed for fixed Rayleigh number and fixed Prandtl number , while the wall-shear Reynolds number () is in the range . Generally, we found enhanced heat transfer efficiency and global flow strength with the increase of . However, even with the same magnitude of global flow strength, the heat transfer efficiency varies significantly when the cells are under different types of wall shear. An interesting finding is that by increasing the wall-shear strength, the thermal turbulence is relaminarized, and more surprisingly, the heat transfer efficiency in the laminar state is higher than that in the turbulent state. We found that the enhanced heat transfer efficiency at the laminar regime is due to the formation of more stable and stronger convection channels. We propose that the origin of thermal turbulence laminarization is the reduced amount of thermal plumes. Because plumes are mainly responsible for turbulent kinetic energy production, when the detached plumes are swept away by the wall shear, the reduced number of plumes leads to weaker turbulent kinetic energy production. We also quantify the efficiency of facilitating heat transport via external shearing, and find that for larger , the enhanced heat transfer efficiency comes at a price of a larger expenditure of mechanical energy.
arXiv comment27 pages, 16 figures
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