Infinite Prandtl number limit of Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1265-1282

  Wang, Xiaoming ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 4544241853     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.3047     Document Type: Article

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