The self-similar rise of a buoyant thermal in very viscous flow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 606, Issue , 2008, Pages 295-324

  Whittaker, Robert J ^a,b   Lister, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WAKES;

DIFFUSIVE GROWTH; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; SINGLE PARAMETER; SLENDER-BODY THEORY; SLIGHT DEFORMATIONS; TOROIDAL STRUCTURES;

BUOYANCY;

BUOYANCY; DEFORMATION; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; STOKES FORMULA; TEMPERATURE; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 45749097843     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008001730     Document Type: Article

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