Ultimate regime of convection: Robustness to poor thermal reservoirs

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Roche, P E ^a   Gauthier, F ^a   Chabaud, B ^a   Hebral B ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

BRASS PLATES; PLATE THERMAL PROPERTIES; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER;

HEAT CONVECTION;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 30044436014     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2136807     Document Type: Article

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