Azimuthal asymmetries of the large-scale circulation in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Brown, Eric ^a   Ahlers, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONTAINERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MAGNETOPLASMA; NATURAL CONVECTION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CYLINDRICAL CONTAINERS; ELLIPTICAL CROSS SECTION; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; ROTATIONAL INVARIANCES; STOCHASTIC ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER; TORSIONAL OSCILLATION;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 55849097286     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2991432     Document Type: Conference Paper

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