Heat Transfer in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection below the Ultimate Regime

Philippe-Emmanuel Roche (1) , Bernard Castaing (2) , Benoît Chabaud (1) , B. Hébral (3)

1 NEEL - HELFA - Hélium : du fondamental aux applications
2 Phys-ENS - Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon
3 CRTBT - Centre de Recherches sur les Très Basses Températures

A Rayleigh-Bénard cell has been designed to explore the Prandtl (Pr) dependence of turbulent convection in the cross-over range $0.7

Mots clés: Rayleigh-Benard; bimodality; Prandtl; Rayleigh; Convection; Turbulence; Heat transfer; Nusselt; Helium; He properties; sidewall

Domaines: Autre [cond-mat.other]

Philippe-Emmanuel Roche, Bernard Castaing, Benoît Chabaud, B. Hébral. Heat Transfer in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection below the Ultimate Regime. 2003. ⟨hal-00000512v1⟩