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Physics‐Informed Machine Learning Framework to Retroactively Estimate Mantle Thermal Convection From Partial Geophysical Observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, Volume 3, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Mantle convection drives the solid Earth, powering plate motions, volcanism, and earthquakes while regulating planetary heat loss. Reconstructing its history is hampered by sparse, noisy observations concentrated near the surface and the present day. Here I develop an inverse physics‐informed neural network framework to estimate mantle thermal
Atsushi Nakao
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How Does Ice Shell Geometry Shape Ocean Dynamics on Icy Moons?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 7, July 2026.
Abstract A poleward‐thinning ice shell can drive circulation in the subsurface oceans of icy moons by imposing a meridional temperature gradient–colder at the equator than the pole–through the freezing point suppression due to pressure. This temperature gradient sets a buoyancy gradient, whose sign depends on the thermal expansion coefficient ...
Yixiao Zhang, Wanying Kang, John Marshall   +2 more
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Study on the Instability of Two-Phase Flow in the Heat-Absorbing Tube of Trough Solar Collector

International Journal of Photoenergy, 2017
The Marangoni effect and Rayleigh-Benard effect in the two-phase region of solar trough heat-absorbing tube are simulated by FTM (front tracking method). Considering the Marangoni effect alone, although surface tension gradient and surface tension affect
Ying Zhang, Peiyao Liu, Peisheng Li, Yue Chen, Yanni Pan   +4 more
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Temperature statistics in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

, 2011
. Rayleigh-Bénard convection in the turbulent regime is studied using statistical methods. Exact evolution equations for the probability density function of temperature and velocity are derived from first principles within the framework of the Lundgren ...
R Friedrich, M Wilczek, J. Lülff, R. Friedrich, Wilczek, M., Friedrich, R., M. Wilczek, J Lülff, Lülff, J.   +8 more
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On the Cell Broadening of Mesoscale Cellular Convection in a Well‐Mixed Boundary Layer

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2026.
Abstract Understanding what controls the horizontal scale of mesoscale cellular convection is central to explaining cloud self‐organization and its radiative impacts. Using a hierarchy of large‐eddy simulations, we investigate cell broadening in a well‐mixed boundary layer by isolating the roles of radiation, cloud microphysics, and water vapor.
Xiaoran Ouyang, Bowen Zhou, Hailong Wang, Hui Xiao, Kang’En Huang, Minghuai Wang   +5 more
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Vertical heat transport at infinite Prandtl number for micropolar fluid

Archives of Mechanics, 2020
We investigate the upper bound on the vertical heat transport in the fully 3D Rayleigh–Bénard convection problem at the infinite Prandtl number for a micropolar fluid.
M. Caggio, P. Kalita, G. Łukaszewicz, K.A. Mizerski   +3 more
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Topographically Controlled Marangoni-Rayleigh-Bénard Convection in Liquid Metals

Fluids, 2021
Convection induced in a layer of liquid with a top free surface by a distribution of heating elements at the bottom can be seen as a variant of standard Marangoni–Rayleigh–Bénard Convection where in place of a flat boundary at constant temperature ...
Marcello Lappa, Aydin Sayar, Wasim Waris
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Thermal Analysis of Phase Change Material Based Energy Storage Module With Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces

Energy Storage, Volume 8, Issue 4, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The thermal performance of two triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) thermal Energy Storage modules, Diamond and Primitive, was investigated using computational fluid dynamics. The melting and solidification behaviors, as well as the charging and discharging characteristics, of the TPMS Energy Storage units were studied for various flow rates.
Tong Su, Guanyang Xue, Setayesh Javadirad, Animesh Kundu, Alparslan Oztekin   +4 more
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Convective shutdown in a porous medium at high Rayleigh number [PDF]

Convection in a closed domain driven by a dense buoyancy source along the upper boundary soon starts to wane owing to the increase of the average interior density.
Neufeld, Jerome A., Lister, John R., Hewitt, Duncan R.   +2 more
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Localized Convection in Sputnik Planitia, Pluto

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 10, 28 May 2026.
Abstract The cellular plains on Sputnik Planitia (SP) are thought to originate from convection in the nitrogen ice layer that fills the basin. Whereas the cells toward the center of SP's cellular plains are wider and interconnected—features explained by vigorous convection—the cells near the margins are smaller and less contiguous, with some appearing ...
C. Jain, V. S. Solomatov, W. B. McKinnon
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