Non-Boussinesq effect: Thermal convection with broken symmetry

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1034-1042

  Zhang, Jun ^a   Childress, Stephen ^b   Libchaber, Albert ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001247944     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869198     Document Type: Article

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