Heat transfer and large scale dynamics in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 503-537

  Ahlers, Guenter ^a   Grossmann, Siegfried ^b   Lohse, Detlef ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS;

REYNOLDS NUMBER;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 65549158072     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: 15390756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.81.503     Document Type: Article

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