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Summary: RESEARCH SUMMARIES
(Contracts/Grants Administered)
July 2004 June 2005
NOTE: Dates in red are the projected end dates and dollar value in red is the projected
total award value.
Guenter Ahlers
Department of Energy, DE-FG02-03ER46080
Heat Transport by Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection
09/15/03-3/15/05 (03/14/07)
$391,760 ($610,486)
We measured the heat transport in the form of the Nusselt number for turbulent Rayleigh-
Benard convection.
"Heat transport by turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection in cylindrical cells with aspect
ratio one and less", Alexei Nikolaenko, Eric Brown, Denis Funfschilling, and G. Ahlers,
J. Fluid Mech. bf 523, 251 (2005).
" Heat transport in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection: Effect of finite top- and
bottom-plate conductivity, E. Brown, A. Nikolaenko, D. Funfschilling, and G. Ahlers,
Phys. Fluids, in print.
"Heat transport by turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection in cylindrical cells with aspect
ratio one and larger", Denis Funfschilling, Eric Brown, Alexei Nikolaenko, and Guenter
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