Flow structure of thermal convection in a rotating spherical shell

Nonlinearity

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 885-904

  Kitauchi, Hideaki ^a   Araki, Keisuke ^b,c   Kida, Shigeo ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FUSION SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

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EID: 0000805497     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/10/4/005     Document Type: Article

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