The transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensional planforms in infinite-Prandtl-number thermal convection

Author:

Travis Bryan,Olson Peter,Schubert Gerald

Abstract

The stability of two-dimensional thermal convection in an infinite-Prandtl-number fluid layer with zero-stress boundaries is investigated using numerical calculations in three-dimensional rectangles. At low Rayleigh numbers (Ra < 20000) calculations of the stability of two-dimensional rolls to cross-roll disturbances are in agreement with the predictions of Bolton & Busse for a fluid with a large but finite Prandtl number. Within the range 2 × 104 < Ra [les ] 5 × 105, steady rolls with basic wavenumber α > 2.22 (aspect ratio < 1.41) are stable solutions. Two-dimensional rolls with basic wavenumber α < 1.96 (aspect ratio > 1.6) are time dependent for Ra > 4 × 104. For every case in which the initial condition was a time-dependent large-aspect-ratio roll, two-dimensional convection was found to be unstable to three-dimensional convection. Time-dependent rolls are replaced by either bimodal or knot convection in cases where the horizontal dimensions of the rectangular box are less than twice the depth. The bimodal planforms are steady states for Ra [les ] 105, but one case at Ra = 5 × 105 exhibits time dependence in the form of pulsating knots. Calculations at Ra = 105 in larger domains resulted in fully three-dimensional cellular planforms. A steady-state square planform was obtained in a 2.4 × 2.4 × 1 rectangular box. started from random initial conditions. Calculations in a 3 × 3 × 1 box produced steady hexagonal cells when started from random initial conditions, and a rectangular planform when started from a two-dimensional roll. An hexagonal planform started in a 3.5 × 3.5 × 1 box at Ra = 105 exhibited oscillatory time dependence, including boundary-layer instabilities and pulsating plumes. Thus, the stable planform in three-dimensional convection is sensitive to the size of the rectangular domain and the initial conditions. The sensitivity of heat transfer to planform variations is less than 10%.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics

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