Rotations and cessations of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 568, Issue , 2006, Pages 351-386

  Brown, Eric ^a   Ahlers, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRANDTL NUMBER; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW;

LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION (LSC); POISSONIAN STATISTICS; RAYLEIGH-BENARD CONVECTION;

HEAT CONVECTION;

HEAT CONVECTION; PRANDTL NUMBER; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TURBULENT FLOW;

ROTATING FLOW; THERMAL CONVECTION; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33750975053     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006002540     Document Type: Article

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