On the triggering of the Ultimate Regime of convection

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Roche, P E ^a   Gauthier, F ^a   Kaiser, R ^a   Salort, J ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC REGIMES; CONVECTION CELL; ENHANCED HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER MEASUREMENTS; HIGH-ACCURACY; HIGH-RA; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TWO CONTROL PARAMETERS;

ASPECT RATIO; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; PRANDTL NUMBER;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 77956598531     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/8/085014     Document Type: Article

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