A model for vortical plumes in rotating convection

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Portegies, J W ^a   Kunnen, R P J ^a   van Heijst, G J F ^a   Molenaar, J ^a,b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; LINEARIZATION; VORTEX FLOW;

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATIONS; COLUMNAR VORTICES; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LINEARIZED EQUATIONS; ROTATING CONVECTION; SYMMETRY CONSTRAINTS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 47149092054     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2936313     Document Type: Article

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