Thermocapillary and buoyant flows with low frequency jitter. I. Jitter confined to the plane

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1273-1290

  Grassia, P ^a   Homsy, G M ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; FLUIDS; GRAVITATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL GRADIENTS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

BUOYANT FLOW; GRAVITY MODULATION; JITTER; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; PARALLEL FLOW; RAYLEIGH-BENARD CELL; THERMOCAPILLARITY; THERMOCAPILLARY FLOW;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 0032087282     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869655     Document Type: Article

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