Large-scale instabilities in a nonrotating turbulent convection

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Elperin, Tov ^a   Golubev, Ilia ^a   Kleeorin, Nathan ^a   Rogachevskii, Igor ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Boundary layer turbulence; Convection; Elastic waves; Flow instability; Numerical analysis; Shear turbulence; Turbulent diffusion; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; THERMAL DIFFUSION; WIND; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; STABILITY;

BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE; COHERENT STRUCTURES; FLOW INSTABILITY; SHEAR TURBULENCE; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; CRITICAL RAYLEIGH NUMBER; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LARGE-SCALE COHERENT STRUCTURES; LARGE-SCALE INSTABILITY; TURBULENT CONVECTION; TURBULENT HEAT FLUXES;

TURBULENT FLOW; HEAT CONVECTION;

HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; THERMAL DIFFUSION; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND;

EID: 33846052218     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2401223     Document Type: Article

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