Horizontal convection

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2008, Pages 185-208

  Hughes, Graham O ^a   Griffiths, Ross W ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Buoyant plume; Differentially heated box; Horizontal density gradient; Meridional overturning circulation; Steady filling box

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUOYANCY; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY);

BUOYANCY FORCING; CONVECTIVE FLOW; DENSITY GRADIENT; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BUOYANCY; DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FLUID DYNAMICS;

BUOYANCY FORCING; HEATING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OVERTURN;

EID: 39049137114     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.40.111406.102148     Document Type: Article

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