Turbulence measurements in nonpenetrative thermal convection

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2460-2470

  Prasad, Ajay K ^a   Gonuguntla, P V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CORRELATION METHODS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HEAT FLUX; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FLOW STRUCTURE; NONPENETRATIVE THERMAL CONVECTION; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; RAYLEIGH-BENARD CONVECTION; VERTICAL VELOCITY SKEWNESS;

HEAT CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0030238261     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869031     Document Type: Article

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