Oscillations of the large scale wind in turbulent thermal convection

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Resagk, Christian ^a   du Puits, Ronald ^a   Thess, André ^a   Dolzhansky, Felix V ^b   Grossmann, Siegfried ^c   Fontenele Araujo, Francisco ^d   Lohse, Detlef ^d  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; PRANDTL NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; PLUME DYNAMICS; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS; THERMAL CONVECTION;

WIND;

ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; PRANDTL NUMBER; TURBULENCE; WIND;

EID: 33749247971     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2353400     Document Type: Article

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