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Rouhi, A. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-7837-418X, Lohse, D., Marusic, I., Sun, C. and Chung, D.,
2021.
Coriolis effect on centrifugal buoyancy-driven convection in a thin cylindrical shell.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 910: A32.
ISSN 0022-1120
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Abstract
We study the effect of the Coriolis force on centrifugal buoyancy-driven convection in a rotating cylindrical shell with inner cold wall and outer hot wall. This is done by performing direct numerical simulations for increasing inverse Rossby number Ro−1 from zero (no Coriolis force) to 20 (very large Coriolis force) and for Rayleigh number Ra from 107 to 1010 and Prandtl number Pr=0.7, corresponding to air. We invoke the thin-shell limit, which neglects the curvature and radial variations of the centripetal acceleration. As Ro−1 increases from zero, the system forms an azimuthal bidirectional wind that reaches its maximum momentum at an optimal Ro−1opt, associated with a maximal skin-friction coefficient Cf and a minimal Nusselt number Nu. Just beyond Ro−1opt, the wind weakens and an axial, quasi-two-dimensional cyclone, corotating with the system, begins to form. A local ‘turbulence’ inverse Rossby number (non-dimensionalised by the eddy turnover time) determines the onset of cyclone formation for all Ra, when its value reaches approximately 4. At Ro−1≫Ro−1opt, the system falls into the geostrophic regime with a sudden drop in Nu. The bidirectional wind for Ro−1≤Ro−1opt is a feature of this system, as it hastens the boundary layer transition from laminar to turbulent, towards the ultimate regime. We see the onset of this transition at Ra=1010 and Ro−1≃Ro−1opt, although the mean flow profile has not yet fully collapsed on the Prandtl–von Kármán (logarithmic) law.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | ||||||
| Creators: | Rouhi, A., Lohse, D., Marusic, I., Sun, C. and Chung, D. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| Date: | 10 March 2021 | ||||||
| Volume: | 910 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0022-1120 | ||||||
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| Rights: | © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology | ||||||
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan | ||||||
| Date Added: | 19 Jan 2021 16:11 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2021 15:07 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/42061 |
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