The onset of convection caused by buoyancy during transient heat conduction in deep fluids

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 4127-4136

  Tan, Ka Kheng ^a   Thorpe, Rex B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

onset of convection; transient Rayleigh number

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY; COOLING; FLUIDS; HEAT CONDUCTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STABILITY; SURFACE TENSION;

DEEP FLUIDS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TRANSIENT HEAT CONDUCTION;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 0030239493     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(96)00255-2     Document Type: Article

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