Non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq effects in strongly turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 569, Issue , 2006, Pages 409-445

  Ahlers, Guenter ^a   Brown, Eric ^a   Araujo, Francisco Fontenele ^b   Funfschilling, Denis ^a   Grossmann, Siegfried ^c   Lohse, Detlef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; KINEMATICS; NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL EXPANSION; VISCOSITY;

OBERBECK-BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY; TURBULENT CONVECTION;

TURBULENCE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; KINEMATICS; NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL EXPANSION; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOSITY;

EID: 33746062691     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006002916     Document Type: Article

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