Measurements of the local convective heat flux in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

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

Volumn 70, Issue 2 2, 2004, Pages

  Shang, X D ^a,b   Qiu, X L ^a   Tong, P ^a,c   Xia, K Q ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEAT FLUX; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL PLUMES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FLOW STRUCTURES; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; PARAMETER RANGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 37649032396     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.026308     Document Type: Article

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