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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
Heat-transport enhancement in rotating turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Stephan Weiss1,2, Ping Wei1, Guenter Ahlers1
1Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
Abstract:
We present new Nusselt-number (Nu) measurements for slowly rotating turbulent thermal convection in cylindrical samples with aspect ratio Γ=1.00 and provide a comprehensive correlation of all available data for that Γ. In the experiment compressed gasses (nitrogen and sulfur hexafluride) as well as the fluorocarbon C_{6}F_{14} (3M Fluorinert FC72) and isopropanol were used as the convecting fluids. The data span the Prandtl-number (Pr) range 0.74
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