Three-dimensional flow structures and dynamics of turbulent thermal convection in a cylindrical cell

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Sun, Chao ^a   Xia, Ke Qing ^a   Tong, P ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

COHERENT MOTION; FLOW STRUCTURES; VECTOR MAP;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 27244444395     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.026302     Document Type: Article

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