Rigorous bounds on the heat transport of rotating convection with Ekman pumping
Author(s)
Pachev, B
Whitehead, JP
Fantuzzi, G
Grooms, I
Type
Working Paper
Abstract
We establish rigorous upper bounds on the time-averaged heat transport for a model of rotating Rayleigh-Benard convection between no-slip boundaries at infinite Prandtl number and with Ekman pumping. The analysis is based on the asymptotically reduced equations derived for rotationally constrained dynamics with no-slip boundaries, and hence includes a lower order correction that accounts for the Ekman layer and corresponding Ekman pumping into the bulk. Using the auxiliary functional method we find that, to leading order, the temporally averaged heat transport is bounded above as a function of the Rayleigh and Ekman numbers Ra and Ek according to $Nu \leq 0.3704 Ra^2 Ek^2$. Dependent on the relative values of the thermal forcing represented by $Ra$ and the effects of rotation represented by $Ek$, this bound is both an improvement on earlier rigorous upper bounds, and provides a partial explanation of recent numerical and experimental results that were consistent yet surprising relative to the previously derived upper bound of $Nu \lesssim Ra^3 k^4$.
Date Issued
2020-02-03
Date Acceptance
2019-12-23
Citation
Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2020, 61 (2), pp.023101-023101
Publisher
AIP Publishing
Start Page
023101
End Page
023101
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Volume
61
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
©2019 The Authors
Identifier
http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13588v1
Subjects
math-ph
math-ph
math.MP
physics.flu-dyn
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-02-03