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

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

1 CRTBT - Centre de Recherches sur les Très Basses Températures
2 Phys-ENS - Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon

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; Nusselt; Helium; Heat transfer; Convection; Rayleigh-Bénard; sidewall; He properties; Prandtl; bimodality; Turbulence

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. Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 2004, 134, pp.1011. ⟨10.1023/B:JOLT.0000016727.23228.78⟩. ⟨hal-00000512v3⟩