Multiple scaling in the ultimate regime of thermal convection

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Grossmann, Siegfried ^a   Lohse, Detlef ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX;

INITIAL CONDITIONS; LOGARITHMIC TEMPERATURE; RANDOM FLUCTUATION; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER; THERMAL CONVECTIONS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; VELOCITY AMPLITUDES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79955370072     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3582362     Document Type: Article

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