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most citedFinite-size effects lead to supercritical bifurcations in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

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physics.flu-dyn2026

A Multipurpose Thermal Convection Setup to Study Turbulent Super Structures

Hiufai Yik, Constantin Schettler, Eberhard Bodenschatz +2

A thermal convection apparatus has been designed to study turbulent super structures at high Rayleigh numbers and Prandtl numbers of the order of unity. This apparatus consists of…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 74 cited

Boundary Zonal Flow in Rotating Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Xuan Zhang, Dennis P. M. van Gils, Susanne Horn +7

For rapidly rotating turbulent Rayleigh--Bénard convection in a slender cylindrical cell, experiments and direct numerical simulations reveal a boundary zonal flow (BZF) that repla…

physics.flu-dyn2018

Diffusion maps embedding and transition matrix analysis of the large-scale flow structure in turbulent Rayleigh--Bénard convection

Péter Koltai, Stephan Weiss

By utilizing diffusion maps embedding and transition matrix analysis we investigate sparse temperature measurement time-series data from Rayleigh--Bénard convection experiments in…

physics.ao-ph2017★ 13 cited

Can hail and rain nucleate cloud droplets?

Prasanth Prabhakaran, Stephan Weiss, Alain Pumir +2

We present results from moist convection in a mixture of pressurized sulfur hexa-flouride (liquid and vapor) and helium (gas) to model the wet and dry components of the earth's atm…

physics.flu-dyn2012★ 45 cited

Effect of tilting on turbulent convection: Cylindrical samples with aspect ratio

Stephan Weiss, Guenter Ahlers

We report measurements of properties of turbulent thermal convection of a fluid with a Prandtl number $\Pra=4.38$ in a cylindrical cell with an aspect ratio . The rotationa…

physics.flu-dyn2011★ 80 cited

Finite-size effects lead to supercritical bifurcations in turbulent rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Stephan Weiss, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Jin-Qiang Zhong +3

In turbulent thermal convection in cylindrical samples of aspect ratio Γ= D/L (D is the diameter and L the height) the Nusselt number Nu is enhanced when the sample is rotated abou…