Evidence against 'ultrahard' thermal turbulence at very high Rayleigh numbers

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6725, 1999, Pages 307-310

  Glazier, James A ^a   Segawa, Takehiko ^b   Naert, Antoine ^c   Sano, Masaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; GRAVITY; HEAT TRANSFER; PLUME; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0033602414     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18626     Document Type: Article

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