Boundary layers in rotating weakly turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Stevens, Richard J A M ^a   Clercx, Herman J H ^a,b   Lohse, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; ROTATION;

HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT; MODEL-BASED OPC; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; ROTATION RATE; WEAKLY TURBULENT;

LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 77956630549     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3467900     Document Type: Article

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