Recent developments in rayleigh-bénard convection

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 32, Issue , 2000, Pages 709-778

  Bodenschatz, Eberhard ^a   Pesch, Werner ^b   Ahlers, Guenter ^c  

^a Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain chaos; Hexagons; Pattern formation; Spatio temporal chaos; Spiral defect chaos; Spirals; Thermal convection

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; MIXTURES; PRANDTL NUMBER;

GAS MIXTURES;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

CHAOS; CONVECTION; FLOW ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0034592313     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.32.1.709     Document Type: Article

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