Scaling of hard thermal turbulence in Rayleigh—Bénard convection

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 1-30

  Zaleski, Stëphane ^e   Gunaratne, Gemunu ^b   Kadanoff, Leo ^b   Libchaber, Albert ^b   Wu, Xiao Zhong ^b   Zanetti, Gianluigi ^b   Heslot, François ^c   Thomae, Stefan ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS--BOUNDARY LAYER; FLUID DYNAMICS--STABILITY; HEAT TRANSFER--CONVECTION; HELIUM--TESTING; HELIUM--HEAT TRANSFER;

RAYLEIGH-BENARD CONVECTION; THERMAL TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYER STABILITY; HARD THERMAL TURBULENCE; THERMAL CONVECTION TURBULENCE; TURBULENCE SCALING;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 0024698819     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112089001643     Document Type: Article

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