Turbulent RayleighBnard convection for a Prandtl number of 0.67

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 641, Issue , 2009, Pages 157-167

  Ahlers, Guenter ^a   Bodenschatz, Eberhard ^b   Funfschilling, Denis ^c   Hogg, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Bnard; Convection

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BNARD; CYLINDRICAL SAMPLES; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MEASUREMENTS OF; PLANE ORIENTATION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; VERTICAL POSITIONS;

PRANDTL NUMBER;

AMPLITUDE; AZIMUTH; NUMERICAL METHOD; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SIMULATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 76349110295     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009991959     Document Type: Article

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