Convective and absolute instabilities of a buoyancy-induced flow in a thermally stratified medium

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 971-977

  Krizhevsky, Larisa ^a   Cohen, Jacob ^a   Tanny, Josef ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY-INDUCED; FLOW; INSTABILITY;

EID: 0029656408     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.868875     Document Type: Article

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