Internally heated convection with rotation: bounds on heat transport

Abstract

This work investigates heat transport in rotating internally heated convection, for a horizontally periodic fluid between parallel plates under no-slip and isothermal boundary conditions. The main results are the proof of bounds on the mean temperature, $\overline{⟨T⟩}$, and the heat flux out of the bottom boundary, ${\mathcal{F}}_B$ at infinite Prandtl numbers where the Prandtl number is the nondimensional ratio of viscous to thermal diffusion. The lower bounds are functions of a Rayleigh number quantifying the ratio of internal heating to diffusion and the Ekman number, $E$, which quantifies the ratio of viscous diffusion to rotation. We utilise two different estimates on the vertical velocity, $w$, one pointwise in the domain (Yan 2004, J. Math. Phys., vol. 45(7), pp. 2718-2743) and the other an integral estimate over the domain (Constantin et al . 1999, Phys. D: Non. Phen., vol. 125, pp. 275-284), resulting in bounds valid for different regions of buoyancy-to-rotation dominated convection. Furthermore, we demonstrate that similar to rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection, for small $E$, the critical Rayleigh number for the onset of convection asymptotically scales as $E^{-4/3}$.This result is combined with heuristic arguments for internally heated and rotating convection to arrive at scaling laws for $\overline{⟨T⟩}$ and ${\mathcal{F}}_B$ valid for arbitrary Prandtl numbers.

35 pages, 9 figures

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