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The Nusselt number is predicted to be 25.36. A large number of one-point turbulence statistics are computed and compared with existing experimental data taken at similar Reynolds and Nusselt numbers. Agreement with the existing experimental data is excellent except for some discrepancies in the near wall region, y$\\sp+$ $<$ 10. A number of two-point statistical correlations with spanwise, streamwise, and/or normal separation are also computed and reported. Mean and turbulent kinetic energy, Reynolds stress, and mean and turbulent temperature variance budgets are presented. Instantaneous and conditionally averaged flow structures are also presented. The momentum and heat transport in the viscous wall region, 0 $<$ y$\\sp+$ $<$ 30-40, is found to be controlled by wall eddies with a spanwise scale of 50$\\sp+$ tilted 30-50 degrees from the wall and rotating in the y-z plane. These eddies are periodic in the spanwise direction with an average periodicity length of $\\sim$100$\\sp+$. 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A number of two-point statistical correlations with spanwise, streamwise, and/or normal separation are also computed and reported. Mean and turbulent kinetic energy, Reynolds stress, and mean and turbulent temperature variance budgets are presented. Instantaneous and conditionally averaged flow structures are also presented. The momentum and heat transport in the viscous wall region, 0 $&lt;$ y$\\sp+$ $&lt;$ 30-40, is found to be controlled by wall eddies with a spanwise scale of 50$\\sp+$ tilted 30-50 degrees from the wall and rotating in the y-z plane. These eddies are periodic in the spanwise direction with an average periodicity length of $\\sim$100$\\sp+$. 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