A new instability for finite Prandtl number rotating convection with free-slip boundary conditions

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-75

  Ponty, Y ^a   Passot, T ^a   Sulem, P L ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DIFFUSION; ESTIMATION; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRANDTL NUMBER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY; VECTORS;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; HORIZONTAL MEAN FLOW; KUPPERS-LORTZ INSTABILITY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; ROTATING CONVECTION; SOLVABILITY CONDITION; TAYLOR NUMBER;

ROTATIONAL FLOW;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVECTION;

EID: 0030976976     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869176     Document Type: Article

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