Onset of convection in a rotating annulus with radial gravity and heating

Fluid Dynamics Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 133-145

  Alonso, A ^a   Net, M ^a   Mercader, I ^a   Knobloch, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEAT CONVECTION; PRANDTL NUMBER;

RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; TAYLOR NUMBERS; VERTICAL ROTATING CYLINDRICAL ANNULUS;

CONFINED FLOW;

EID: 0033101750     PISSN: 01695983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5983(98)00020-3     Document Type: Article

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