Turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6780, 2000, Pages 837-840

  Niemela, J J ^a   Skrbek, L ^a   Sreenivasan, K R ^a   Donnelly, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

ARTICLE; HEAT TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY;

EID: 0034690061     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35009036     Document Type: Article

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