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16:15
15 mins
Moist Rayleigh-Benard Convection
Prasanth Prabhakaran, Florian Winkel, Alexei Krekhov, Holger Nobach, Eberhard Bodenschatz
Session: Atmospheric turbulence 2
Session starts: Tuesday 25 August, 15:00
Presentation starts: 16:15
Room: Room C


Prasanth Prabhakaran (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation)
Florian Winkel (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation)
Alexei Krekhov (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation)
Holger Nobach (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation)
Eberhard Bodenschatz (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation)


Abstract:
We report the observations from turbulent thermal Rayleigh-Benard convection experiment with a two-phase liquid-vapor binary mixture. Evaporation/condensation processes in a turbulent convection are accompanied by the formation of cloud like structures above the liquid-vapor interface. We also found that a liquid film condensation on the underside of the top plate results in regular hexagonal patterns of falling droplets.