Accepted Talks Proceedings »

Temperature fluctuations near the ultimate-state transition in turbulent thermal convection

PDF
0.3MB

We report experimental results for temperature statistics in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection (RBC) in a cylindrical sample of aspect ratio 1.

Author(s):

Xiaozhou He    
Max-Planck Institue for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen
Germany

Dennis van Gils    
Max-Planck Institue for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen
Germany

Eberhard Bodenschatz    
Max-Planck Institue for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen
Germany

Guenter Ahlers    
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
United States