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快速旋转对流中的速度测量:空间相关,流动结构和长度尺度

Velocimetry in rapidly rotating convection: spatial correlations, flow structures and length scales

Matteo Madonia, Andrés J. Aguirre Guzmán, Herman J. H. Clercx, Rudie P. J. Kunnen

摘要:

旋转Rayleigh-Bénard对流是一个经常使用的模型系统,用于评估由于旋转引起的浮力和Coriolis力的相互作用,这是许多地球物理和天体物理流动中发现的动力学效应的显著相关相互作用。这些流量显示极端值的管理参数:大瑞利数$Ra$,量化的热力强迫的强度,和小埃克曼数$E$,一个参数成反比的旋转速率。这导致了在压力梯度和科里奥利力之间的流动中占主导地位的地转平衡。由于要求同时获得大的$Ra$值和小的$E$值,所以难以用实验室实验和数值模拟来研究旋转对流的所谓地转区。在这里,我们使用流量测量,使用立体粒子图像测速在一个大规模的旋转对流装置在一个水平面中的中等高度,研究丰富的流动现象的地转制度的旋转对流。我们量化的垂直速度和垂直涡度的空间相关性的流量的水平长度尺度,再现的对流泰勒柱和羽流状态的地转制度的两个部分的功能。此外,我们发现在这个水平面上的组织成一个四极涡在较高的瑞利数从羽状状态。

英文摘要:

Rotating Rayleigh--Bénard convection is an oft-employed model system to evaluate the interplay of buoyant forcing and Coriolis forces due to rotation, an eminently relevant interaction of dynamical effects found in many geophysical and astrophysical flows. These flows display extreme values of the governing parameters: large Rayleigh numbers $Ra$, quantifying the strength of thermal forcing, and small Ekman numbers $E$, a parameter inversely proportional to the rotation rate. This leads to the dominant geostrophic balance of forces in the flow between pressure gradient and Coriolis force. The so-called geostrophic regime of rotating convection is difficult to study with laboratory experiments and numerical simulations given the requirements to attain simultaneously large $Ra$ values and small values of $E$. Here, we use flow measurements using stereoscopic particle image velocimetry in a large-scale rotating convection apparatus in a horizontal plane at mid-height to study the rich flow phenomenology of the geostrophic regime of rotating convection. We quantify the horizontal length scales of the flow using spatial correlations of vertical velocity and vertical vorticity, reproducing features of the convective Taylor columns and plumes flow states both part of the geostrophic regime. Additionally, we find in this horizontal plane an organisation into a quadrupolar vortex at higher Rayleigh numbers starting from the plumes state.

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