Dynamics of reorientations and reversals of large-scale flow in Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 668, Issue , 2011, Pages 480-499

  Mishra, P K ^a   De, A K ^b   Verma, M K ^a   Eswaran, V ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

plumes thermals; turbulence simulation; turbulent convection

Indexed keywords

FOURIER SERIES; PRANDTL NUMBER; PROBES; VELOCITY;

AZIMUTHAL DIRECTION; CYLINDRICAL CONTAINERS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; PLUMES/THERMALS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TURBULENCE SIMULATION; TURBULENT CONVECTION;

ASPECT RATIO;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MODELING; FLUID MECHANICS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 79951682053     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010004830     Document Type: Article

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