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Abstract

Results of a new direct numerical simulation (DNS) for the Rayleigh-Bénard convection at Prandtl number Pr = 0.025 and Rayleigh number Ra = 100,000 are used to analyse the turbulent diffusion term in the transport equation for the temperature variance dissipation rate. These DNS results are also used to investigate the performance of statistical models for this turbulent diffusion term. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)