Flow organization in two-dimensional non-Oberbeck-Boussinesq Rayleigh-Bénard convection in water

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 637, Issue , 2009, Pages 105-135

  Sugiyama, Kazuyasu ^a,c   Calzavarini, Enrico ^a,d   Grossmann, Siegried ^b   Lohse, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; EXPANSION; NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TECHNETIUM; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EXPANSION; VELOCITY;

BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYER THEORY; FIXED TEMPERATURE; NUSSELT NUMBER RATIOS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; THERMAL EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; VELOCITY AMPLITUDES;

RHENIUM COMPOUNDS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; FLUID FLOW; NUMERICAL METHOD; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TURBULENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 76249087619     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009008027     Document Type: Article

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