Buoyancy statistics in moist turbulent rayleigh-bénard convection

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 648, Issue , 2010, Pages 509-519

  Schumacher, Jörg ^a   Pauluis, Olivier ^b  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BUOYANCY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATIONS; BUOYANCY FLUXES; CONVECTION LAYERS; EQUATION OF STATE; PIECEWISE LINEAR; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TURBULENT FLUCTUATION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; BUOYANCY; EQUATION OF STATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL CONVECTION; THERMODYNAMICS; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 77952414536     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010000030     Document Type: Article

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