Thermal convection in a layer bounded by uniform heat flux: Application of a strongly nonlinear analytical solution

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 223-250

  Fiedler, Brian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Scale selection; Thermal convection; Wavenumber selection

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUOYANCY; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW;

WAVENUMBER SELECTION;

GEOPHYSICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX;

BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT FLUX; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0034028270     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091929908203705     Document Type: Article

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