Fully nonlinear oscillatory convection in a rotating layer

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1906-1913

  Julien, Keith ^a,b   Knobloch, Edgar ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HEAT FLUX; INTEGRATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; OSCILLATIONS; PRANDTL NUMBER; WAVES;

BOUSSINESQ CONVECTION; NONLINEAR OSCILLATORY CONVECTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; STANDING WAVE; TAYLOR NUMBER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TRAVELING WAVE;

HEAT CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; OSCILLATION(FLUID);

EID: 0031193794     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869311     Document Type: Article

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