Plume formation in strongly temperature-dependent viscosity fluids over a very hot surface

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1059-1063

  Ke, Y ^a   Solomatov, V S ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; STABILITY; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL PLUMES;

LID CONVECTION THEORY; PLUME FORMATION;

VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; PLUME; VISCOSITY;

EID: 1842735046     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1648638     Document Type: Article

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