Stability of Mixed-Convection Flow in a Tall Vertical Channel Under Non-Boussinesq Conditions

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 302, Issue , 1995, Pages 91-115

  Suslov, Sergey A ^a   Paolucci, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEBYSHEV APPROXIMATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HEAT CONVECTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STABILITY; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

INTEGRAL CHEBYSHEV PSEUDO SPECTRAL METHOD; MIXED-CONVECTION FLOW; MODES OF INSTABILITY; NON BOUSSINESQ CONDITIONS; SQUIRE TRANSFORMATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CHANNEL FLOW;

CONVECTION; FLOW STABILITY;

EID: 0029395263     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112095004022     Document Type: Article

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