High Rayleigh number convection

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 137-168

  Siggia, Eric D ^a  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Heat flux; Plumes; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243254563     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fl.26.010194.001033     Document Type: Article

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