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Thermal radiation in Rayleigh-Bénard convection experiments

P Urban1, T Králík1, P Hanzelka1

  • 1The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Scientific Instruments, Královopolská 147, Brno, Czech Republic.

Physical Review. E
|May 20, 2020
PubMed
Summary

Radiative heat transport significantly impacts turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC) scaling near ambient temperatures, altering Nusselt number (Nu) predictions. However, this effect is negligible in cryogenic helium RBC experiments.

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