Small-scale properties of turbulent rayleigh-benard convection

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 42, Issue , 2010, Pages 335-364

  Lohse, Detlef ^a   Xia, Ke Qing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bolgiano scaling; Structure functions; Thermal convection; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

INHOMOGENEITIES; INTERMITTENCY; LENGTH SCALE; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SCALE PROPERTIES; SCALE SEPARATION; SCALING REGIMES; SCALING STRUCTURE; SECOND ORDERS; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE; THERMAL CONVECTIONS; TURBULENT RAYLEIGH-BENARD CONVECTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

TURBULENCE;

HEAT CONVECTION;

ANISOTROPY; FLOW PATTERN; INHOMOGENEITY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL CONVECTION; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 72049116001     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.010908.165152     Document Type: Review

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