Nusselt Number Measurements for Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Nikolaenko, Alexei ^a   Ahlers, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; NUSSELT NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 0141904462     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.084501     Document Type: Article

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