Feedback effects of variable thermal conductivity on the cold downwellings in high rayleigh number convection

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 2981-2984

  Dubuffet, Fabien ^a,b,c   Yuen, David A ^a,b,c   Yanagawa, Tomo ^a,b,c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; PHONONS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMAL DIFFUSION; VISCOSITY; FEEDBACK; NONLINEAR FEEDBACK;

RAYLEIGH NUMBER CONVECTION;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CONVECTION; MANTLE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

HIGH-RAYLEIGH-NUMBER CONVECTION; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; NONLINEAR DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT CONDUCTIVITY; VARIABLE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VERTICAL BOUNDARIES; VISCOSITY MODELING;

EID: 0034664412     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL008423     Document Type: Article

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