Experimental study of non-Boussinesq Rayleigh-Bénard convection at high Rayleigh and Prandtl numbers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2969-2976

  Manga, Michael ^a   Weeraratne, Dayanthie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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EID: 0001331517     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870156     Document Type: Article

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