Ultimate regime in Rayleigh-Bénard convection: The role of plates

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2452-2456

  Chilla F ^a   Rastello, M ^a   Chaumat, S ^a   Castaing, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

FINITE HEAT CONDUCTIVITY; RAYLEIGH CONVECTION; REAL ACTIVE BOUNDARIES;

HEAT CONVECTION;

CONVECTION;

EID: 3242730251     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1751396     Document Type: Article

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