Horizontal convection: Effect of aspect ratio on Rayleigh number scaling and stability

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1647-1655

  Sheard, Gregory J ^a   King, Martin P ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Boussinesq; Differentially heated box; Horizontal convection; Nusselt number scaling; Overturning circulation; Spectral element method

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ; DIFFERENTIALLY HEATED BOX; HORIZONTAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER SCALING; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD;

AERODYNAMICS; ASTATINE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; UNSTEADY FLOW;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 78650276427     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2010.09.041     Document Type: Article

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