Effect of the Earth's Coriolis force on the large-scale circulation of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Brown, Eric ^a   Ahlers, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Benard convection; Confined flow; Gravity waves; Rotational flow; Turbulent diffusion

Indexed keywords

COOLING SYSTEMS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; ROTATIONAL FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; CORIOLIS FORCE; DIFFUSION BARRIERS;

BENARD CONVECTION; EARTH'S CORIOLIS FORCE; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; AZIMUTHAL ROTATION; CYLINDRICAL SAMPLES; MEASUREMENTS OF; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TIME DEPENDENCE;

HEAT CONVECTION; NATURAL CONVECTION;

COOLING SYSTEMS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HEAT CONVECTION; ROTATIONAL FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 33846044637     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2402875     Document Type: Article

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