A model of diffusion in a potential well for the dynamics of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Brown, Eric ^a,b   Ahlers, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ASPECT RATIO; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WHITE NOISE;

AZIMUTHAL ORIENTATION; CYLINDRICAL CONTAINERS; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; STOCHASTIC ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TEMPERATURE AMPLITUDE; TURBULENT FLUCTUATION;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 47049095005     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2919806     Document Type: Article

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