Weak turbulence and chaos for low Prandtl number gravity driven convection in porous media

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-91

  Vadasz, Peter ^a   Olek, Shmuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chaos; Free convection; Lorenz equations; Weak turbulence

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; POROUS MATERIALS; PRANDTL NUMBER; SOLIDIFICATION; TURBULENCE;

LORENZ EQUATIONS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

ALLOY; CONVECTION; POROUS MEDIUM; SOLIDIFICATION;

EID: 0032719096     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006522018375     Document Type: Article

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