Mean wind in convective turbulence of mercury

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Tsuji, Yoshiyuki ^a   Mizuno, Takatoshi ^a   Mashiko, Takashi ^b   Sano, Masaki ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE TURBULENCE; POWER LAW RELATION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL TURBULENCE; ULTRASONIC VELOCIMETRY;

HEAT TRANSFER; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; PRANDTL NUMBER; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMOCOUPLES; TURBULENCE; WIND TUNNELS;

MERCURY (METAL);

EID: 18044381333     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.034501     Document Type: Article

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