Cessations and reversals of the large-scale circulation in turbulent thermal convection

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Xi, Heng Dong ^a   Xia, Ke Qing ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; GEOMAGNETISM; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FLOW STRENGTH; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION (LSC); TURBULENT THERMAL CONVECTION; VELOCITY FIELDS;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 34547256319     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.066307     Document Type: Article

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