On stability of rolls near the onset of convection in a layer with stress-free boundaries

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-28

  Podvigina, Olga ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Boussinesq convection; Onset; Rolls; Stability; Stress free boundaries

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; APRIORI; ASYMPTOTIC DEPENDENCE; BOUSSINESQ CONVECTION; CLASSICAL PROBLEMS; EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; LINEAR STABILITY; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; ONSET OF CONVECTION; PERIODIC PERTURBATION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; STRESS-FREE BOUNDARIES; WAVE NUMBERS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

STABILITY;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CONVECTION; EIGENVALUE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERTURBATION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 77950988564     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091921003603025     Document Type: Article

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