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Heat transfer and flow structure of two-dimensional thermal convection over ratchet surfaces

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This paper presents a numerical study of the Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC) in two-dimensional cells with asymmetric (ratchet) roughness distributed on the top and bottom surfaces. We consider two aspect ratios of roughness γ = 1, 2 and the range of the Rayleigh number 1.0 × 106 ≤ Ra ≤ 2.0 × 1010 with the Prandtl number Pr = 4. The influences of the roughness on the heat transfer and the flow structure are found to be strongly dependent on both Ra and the roughness geometry. We find that the roughness can have a significant influence on the organization of the secondary corner rolls, and the corner rolls are evidently suppressed by the roughness for intermediate values of Ra. In the presence of the roughness, a sharp jump of the Nu values is identified as the Ra value is slightly increased, accompanied with the dramatic changes of the large-scale flow structure and the plume dynamics. The influences of the ratchet orientation on the heat transfer and the flow structure are discussed and analyzed.

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  1. Center for Combustion Energy, Key Laboratory for Thermal Science and Power Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Cheng Wang, Lin-feng Jiang, He-chuan Jiang, Chao Sun & Shuang Liu

  2. Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Chao Sun

  3. Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Shuang Liu

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Projects supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11988102, 91852202), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2019M660614).

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Wang, C., Jiang, Lf., Jiang, Hc. et al. Heat transfer and flow structure of two-dimensional thermal convection over ratchet surfaces. J Hydrodyn 33, 970–978 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42241-021-0086-9

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