Plume motion and large-scale circulation in a cylindrical rayleigh-bénard cell

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Funfschilling, Denis ^a   Ahlers, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; OSCILLATIONS; PRANDTL NUMBER; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VECTORS; WIND EFFECTS;

PLUME DISTRIBUTION; PLUME MOTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 17044454149     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.194502     Document Type: Article

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