Does confined turbulent convection ever attain the 'asymptotic scaling' with 1/2 power?

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Niemela, J J ^a   Sreenivasan, K R ^a,b  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC SCALING; BOUSSINESQ; CRITICAL POINTS; CYLINDRICAL CONTAINERS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLUID CONDUCTIVITY; HEAT TRANSPORT; HEIGHT ASPECT RATIOS; HELIUM GAS; HORIZONTAL SURFACES; NEGATIVE VALUES; NON-DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TRANSITION REGIONS; TURBULENT CONVECTION; TURBULENT THERMAL CONVECTION;

HEAT CONVECTION; HELIUM; NUSSELT NUMBER; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 78650118331     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/11/115002     Document Type: Article

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