Numerical upper bounds on convective heat transport in a layer of fluid of finite Prandtl number: Confirmation of Howard's analytical asymptotic single-wave-number bound

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Vitanov, Nikolay K ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (Bulgaria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boundary layer turbulence; Chaos; Convection; Numerical analysis; Variational techniques

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHAOS THEORY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE; FINITE PRANDTL NUMBER; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS;

HEAT CONVECTION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHAOS THEORY; HEAT CONVECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33645747042     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2099028     Document Type: Article

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