Upper bound on the heat transport in a horizontal fluid layer of infinite Prandtl number

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 248, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 338-346

  Vitanov, Nikolay K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convection; Heat transfer; Optimum theory of turbulence; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; PRANDTL NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

ASYMPTOTIC THEORIES; EULER-LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; HORIZONTAL FLUID LAYERS; INFINITE PRANDTL NUMBER; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RIGID BOUNDARIES; STRESS-FREE BOUNDARIES; VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 0041577305     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(98)00674-4     Document Type: Article

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