Three-dimensional numerical experiments on thermal convection in a very viscous fluid: Implications for the dynamics of a thermal boundary layer at high Rayleigh number

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 609-617

  Parmentier, E M ^a   Sotin, C ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034035665     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.870267     Document Type: Article

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