72th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 23, 2019 — November 26, 2019)

V0011: Turbulence on Fire: The rise and fall of sheared plumes

Authors

• Alexander Blass, Physics of Fluids Group, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Jean Favre, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Switzerland
• Roberto Verzicco, Physics of Fluids Group, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Detlef Lohse, Physics of Fluids Group, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Richard Stevens, Physics of Fluids Group, University of Twente, The Netherlands

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2019.GFM.V0011

We performed Direct Numerical Simulations of sheared thermal convection to investigate the interplay of buoyancy and flow shearing. The volume renderings are created using highly parallelized ParaView libraries and reveal large-scale structures which can be found very often in nature.

References:
Blass, A. et al. (2019). Flow organization and heat transfer in turbulent wall sheared thermal convection. Under review. https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11400v2
Favre, J. M., & Blass, A. (2019). A comparative evaluation of three volume rendering libraries for the visualization of sheared thermal convection. Parallel Computing, 88, 102543.