Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection in gaseous and liquid He

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1300-1320

  Chavanne, X ^a,b   Chilla F ^a,c   Chabaud, B ^a   Castaing, B ^a   Hebral B ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c Laboratoire de Physique UMR CNRS ENSL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT CONVECTION; LAMINAR FLOW; PRANDTL NUMBER; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; THERMOMETERS; TRANSITION FLOW;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

CONVECTION; HELIUM; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0035337311     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1355683     Document Type: Article

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