Published experiments on natural turbulent convection in cryogenic (4)He gas show contradictory results in the values of Rayleigh number (Ra) higher than 10(11). This paper describes a new helium cryostat with a cylindrical cell designed for the study of the dependence of the Nusselt number (Nu) on the Rayleigh number (up to Ra approximately 10(15)) in order to help resolve the existing controv...

Convection over the building envelope is a critical determinant of building cooling load, but parameterization of convection in building energy models and urban computational fluid dynamics models is challenging. An experimental investigation intended to clarify the heat transfer mechanism of a convective wall boundary layer (WBL) on a leeward, vertical building wall was conducted at the Compre...