On the Rayleigh-Bénard problem in the continuum limit

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Manela, Avshalom ^a   Frankel, Itzchak ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CHEBYSHEV COLLOCATION METHOD; FLUID PROPERTIES; KNUDSEN NUMBER; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

CONVECTION; FLUID FLOW;

EID: 15844392760     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1861876     Document Type: Article

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