Thermal convection below a conducting lid of variable extent: Heat flow scalings and two-dimensional, infinite Prandtl number numerical simulations

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 455-466

  Lenardic, A ^a   Moresi, L ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; PRANDTL NUMBER;

HEAT FLOW;

HEAT CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; PRANDTL NUMBER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 0037332021     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1533755     Document Type: Article

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