Torsional oscillations of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 607, Issue , 2008, Pages 119-139

  Funfschilling, Denis ^a,b   Brown, Eric ^c   Ahlers, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HOPF BIFURCATION; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRANDTL NUMBER; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CYLINDRICAL SAMPLES; DAMPED HARMONIC OSCILLATOR; DETERMINISTIC SYSTEMS; GAUSSIAN PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; OSCILLATION AMPLITUDE; STRONG DEPENDENCES; TORSIONAL OSCILLATION;

ASPECT RATIO;

AZIMUTH; BIFURCATION; CIRCULATION MODELING; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; OSCILLATING FLOW; PROBABILITY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; STOCHASTICITY; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 47049085515     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008001882     Document Type: Article

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