Convection in slab and spheroidal geometries

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 898, Issue , 2000, Pages 1-20

  Porter, David H ^a   Woodward, Paul R ^a   Jacobs, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Hydrodynamics; Mixing length theory; Stellar structure; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENTHALPY; GAS FLOW; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTION; PRESSURE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY;

EID: 0034078702     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06160.x     Document Type: Article

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