Convection
Buoyancy-driven flow including Rayleigh–Bénard, penetrative, atmospheric, and indoor convection.
Publications (22)
- Entrainment and detrainment statistics of a stationary shallow cumulus cloud Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2025)
- Large-eddy simulation of a diurnal cycle in a coastal urban environment Building and Environment (2025)
- Countergradient turbulent transport in a plume with a crossflow Environmental Fluid Mechanics (2024)
- Robustness of point measurements of carbon dioxide concentration for the inference of ventilation rates in a wintertime classroom Indoor Environments (2024)
- Uniformly distributed floor sources of buoyancy can give rise to significant spatial inhomogeneities within rooms Flow (2023)
- How trees affect urban air quality: It depends on the source Atmospheric Environment (2022)
- Investigating microscale patchiness of motile microbes under turbulence in a simulated convective mixed layer PLOS Computational Biology (2022)
- Confined turbulent convection driven by a combination of line and distributed sources of buoyancy Physical Review Fluids (2021)
- Potential-enstrophy lengthscale for the turbulent/nonturbulent interface in stratified flow Physical Review Fluids (2021)
- Steady-State Large-Eddy Simulations of Convective and Stable Urban Boundary Layers Boundary-Layer Meteorology (2020)
- Dynamics of Subsiding Shells in Actively Growing Clouds with Vertical Updrafts Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (2020)
- Understanding Entrainment Processes in the Atmosphere: The Role of Numerical Simulation ERCOFTAC Series (2017)
- The turbulent Prandtl number in a pure plume is 3/5 Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2017)
- The turbulent/nonturbulent interface in penetrative convection Journal of Turbulence (2017)
- Systematic investigation of non-Boussinesq effects in variable-density groundwater flow simulations Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (2015)
- LES study of a mixed layer above urban street canyons Conference Proceeding of THMT-15. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium On Turbulence Heat and Mass Transfer (2015)
- Insights from a pseudospectral approach to the Elder problem Water Resources Research (2009)
- Improving the worthiness of the Elder problem as a benchmark for buoyancy driven convection models Conference Nature Precedings (2008)
- Spectral analysis of boundary layers in Rayleigh-Bénard convection Physical Review E (2008)
- Wind and boundary layers in Rayleigh-Bénard convection. I. Analysis and modeling Physical Review E (2008)
- Wind and boundary layers in Rayleigh-Benard convection. II. Boundary layer character and scaling (2008)
- Identification of the wind in Rayleigh–Bénard convection Physics of Fluids (2005)
Demos (1)
- Rayleigh–Bénard convection — patterns from heat Heat the bottom of a fluid layer, cool the top, and watch patterns emerge. Adjust the Rayleigh number to walk from conduction through cells to soft turbulence.