Prandtl-Blasius temperature and velocity boundary-layer profiles in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 664, Issue , 2010, Pages 297-312

  Zhou, Quan ^a   Stevens, Richard J A M ^b   Sugiyama, Kazuyasu ^b,c   Grossmann, Siegfried ^d   Lohse, Detlef ^b   Xia, Ke Qing ^e  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

B nard convection; boundary layers; convection

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT CONVECTION; LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYER; NATURAL CONVECTION; PRANDTL NUMBER; VELOCITY;

CONDUCTING PLATES; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REFERENCE FRAME; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TIME-AVERAGED; TURBULENT THERMAL CONVECTION; VELOCITY BOUNDARY LAYERS; VELOCITY PROFILES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; LAMINAR FLOW; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMAL CONVECTION; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 78649972463     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010003824     Document Type: Article

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