Absolute instability of Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a time-periodic shear flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1273-1276

  Li, Hsi Shang ^a   Kelly, Robert E ^b   Hall, Philip ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; INSTABILITY; SHEAR FLOW;

INSTABILITY; RAYLEIGH-BENARD; SHEAR FLOW; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0343710474     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869242     Document Type: Article

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