Transient almost-invariant sets reveal convective heat transfer patterns in plane-layer Rayleigh-Bénard convection

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Main Authors: Badza, Aleksandar, Froyland, Gary, Samuel, Roshan J., Schumacher, Jörg
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Published: 2025
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author Badza, Aleksandar
Froyland, Gary
Samuel, Roshan J.
Schumacher, Jörg
author_facet Badza, Aleksandar
Froyland, Gary
Samuel, Roshan J.
Schumacher, Jörg
contents Horizontally extended plane-layer convection flows are characterized by characteristic patterns of turbulent heat transfer due to the convective fluid motion consisting of a nearly-regular ridge network where hot fluid rises and cold fluid sinks. Here, we analyse this transport behavior by the so-called inflated generator framework, which identifies quasi-stationary families of almost-invariant sets, derived from leading inflated generator eigenvectors. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this data-driven analysis framework in three-dimensional turbulent flow, by extracting transient characteristic heat transfer patterns as families of almost-invariant sets subject to a transient evolution, which contribute least to the convective heat transfer.
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spellingShingle Transient almost-invariant sets reveal convective heat transfer patterns in plane-layer Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Badza, Aleksandar
Froyland, Gary
Samuel, Roshan J.
Schumacher, Jörg
Fluid Dynamics
Dynamical Systems
37N10 (Primary), 37M25, 76R10 (Secondary)
Horizontally extended plane-layer convection flows are characterized by characteristic patterns of turbulent heat transfer due to the convective fluid motion consisting of a nearly-regular ridge network where hot fluid rises and cold fluid sinks. Here, we analyse this transport behavior by the so-called inflated generator framework, which identifies quasi-stationary families of almost-invariant sets, derived from leading inflated generator eigenvectors. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this data-driven analysis framework in three-dimensional turbulent flow, by extracting transient characteristic heat transfer patterns as families of almost-invariant sets subject to a transient evolution, which contribute least to the convective heat transfer.
title Transient almost-invariant sets reveal convective heat transfer patterns in plane-layer Rayleigh-Bénard convection
topic Fluid Dynamics
Dynamical Systems
37N10 (Primary), 37M25, 76R10 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05590