Bounds on Rayleigh-Bénard convection with an imposed heat flux

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 473, Issue , 2002, Pages 191-199

  Otero, Jesse ^a   Wittenberg, Ralf W ^a   Worthing, Rodney A ^b   Doering, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Breasco LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; NUSSELT NUMBER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAYLEIGH FADING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

TEMPERATURE DROP;

HEAT FLUX;

CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; NUSSELT NUMBER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 0037176322     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112002002410     Document Type: Article

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