Abstract
A systematic study of temperature oscillations in turbulent thermal convection was carried out in two aspect-ratio-one convection cells filled with water. Temperature correlation functions and local velocity fluctuations were measured over varying Rayleigh numbers and spatial positions across the entire cell. These measurements fully characterize the spatial structure of the temperature oscillation and reveal the mixing and emission dynamics of the thermal plumes near the conducting surface. A sharp transition from a random chaotic state to a correlated turbulent state of finite coherence time is found when the Rayleigh number becomes larger than a critical value Ra(c) approximately equal 5 x 10(7). Above Ra(c) the measured temperature correlation functions show a well-defined oscillation with a finite coherence time. The oscillation period is found to be twice as large as the cell crossing time. The experiment demonstrates how the thermal plumes in a closed cell organize themselves both in space and time and generate coherent oscillations in a turbulent environment.
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