Ultimate state of thermal convection

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Lohse, Detlef ^a   Toschi, Federico ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL EXPANSION; TURBULENCE;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RAYLEIGH-BENARD CASE; THERMAL CONVECTION;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 0037462934     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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