ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025
On the absence of the ultimate regime in turbulent thermal convection.
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Quantifying heat transport in turbulent convection remains a challenge. The two competing models of heat transport predict that the nondimensional heat flux, known as the Nusselt number (Nu), is proportional to [Formula: see text] (classical scaling) and [Formula: see text] (ultimate-regime scaling), where [Formula: see text] is the Rayleigh number. Some experiments and simulations report that the Nusselt number transitions from near classical scaling, [Formula: see text], to a larger power law when the boundary layer turns turbulent near [Formula: see text]. However, others find [Formula: see text] scaling to continue for larger Ra. In this work, we perform a comparative study of Rayleigh-Bénard, compressible, and periodic convection in two and three dimensions using direct numerical simulations. We show that up to [Formula: see text] in two dimensions and up to [Formula: see text] in three dimensions, the positive and negative energy fluxes in Rayleigh-Bénard and compressible convection are nearly equal. However, in the distribution function, the positive fluxes have longer tails than the negative ones, and the differences between the positive and negative fluxes scale as [Formula: see text], which leads to [Formula: see text]. The above robust and universal properties, even in the presence of a logarithmic layer in compressible convection, indicate a likely absence of the ultimate regime in turbulent thermal convection. In contrast, periodic convection, which is related to the ultimate regime, exhibits a predominantly positive heat flux.
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