Large-scale numerical simulations:Convection in an annular channel rotating about a vertical axis with side-walls
For the purpose of understanding the dynamics of planetary atmospheres,we use the annular convection model to simulate the dynamics of atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. The model (annular channel) rotates about a vertical axis with side-walls,and it is heated from below.We use the software NaSt3DGP (a parallel software package to solve the 3D incompressible fluid dynamic problems in Cartesian coordinates by using Finite Difference Method) for the computation. Its reliability is tested by our application to simulate fully three-dimensional nonlinear convection in a box with lateral stress-free side-walls,uniformly heated from below. We found that,at moderately large Rayleigh numbers,the complex formation of multiple-jet flows can be maintained by the traveling convective eddies; we also found that the type of the sidewall velocity condition does not play an essential role in determining the primary properties of strongly nonlinear convection.
Solver rotation annular channel simulation convection
Yingli Chang Yu Liu
Shanghai fisheries university.334 Jungong Road,Shanghai 200090,China Shanghai Astronomical Observatory,80 Nandan Road,Shanghai,China;Graduate University of Chinese Acade
国际会议
The 252th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union(国际天文学联合会第252届研讨会)
海南三亚
英文
111-112
2008-04-06（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）