Two bifurcation transition processes in floating half zone convection of larger Prandtl number fluid

Acta Mechanica Sinica/Lixue Xuebao

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 328-341

  Tang, Zemei ^a   Cao, Zhonghua ^a   Hu, Wenrui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Experiment; Microgravity fluid; Numerical simulation; Thermocapillary convection

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GRAVITATION; PRANDTL NUMBER;

BIFURCATION TRANSITIONS; MARANGONI NUMBERS; MICROGRAVITY FLUID; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; THERMOCAPILLARY CONVECTION;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 0036703417     PISSN: 05677718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02487785     Document Type: Article

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