Numerical study of heat-transfer in two- and quasi-two-dimensional Rayleigh–Bénard convection
Gao Zhen-Yuan, Luo Jia-Hui, Bao Yun
       

(color online) Compensated Nu/Ra0.3 as a function of Ra. Here all results are obtained by DNS. The 3D results from Stevens et al.[8] (Γ = 1/2) are indicated by the orange hollow circles and the present quasi-2D results are indicated by blue solid circles. Analogously, the 2D results from this work and Zhang et al.[18] are indicated by red solid triangles and green hollow triangles, respectively. The GL theory with updated pre-factors[4] is indicated by the black solid line. The dash line represents the best power-law fit of present 2D results.