An improved ‘flywheel’ model for convective turbulence in liquid metals

Fluid Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 46, Issue , 1998, Pages 399-402

  Verzicco, R ^a   Camussi, R ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heat Transfer Property; Prandtl Number; Present Numerical Result; Rayleigh Number; Thermal Boundary Layer

Indexed keywords

EID: 20644444676     PISSN: 09265112     EISSN: 22150056     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5118-4_98     Document Type: Article

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