Available potential energy and buoyancy variance in horizontal convection

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 629, Issue , 2009, Pages 221-230

  Winters, Kraig B ^a,b   Young, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; BUOYANCY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PRANDTL NUMBER;

BOUSSINESQ CONVECTION; ENERGY-TRANSFER RATE; EXTERNAL ENERGY SOURCES; HORIZONTAL CONVECTION; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TURBULENT DISSIPATION;

POTENTIAL ENERGY;

BIOTURBATION; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; BUOYANCY FORCING; CONVECTION; DIFFUSION; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; KINEMATICS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 67650898924     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009006685     Document Type: Article

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