Experimental investigation of longitudinal space-time correlations of the velocity field in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 683, Issue , 2011, Pages 94-111

  Zhou, Quan ^a   Li, Chun Mei ^a   Lu, Zhi Ming ^a   Liu, Yu Lu ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

B nard convection; convection; turbulent convection

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; HEAT CONVECTION; NATURAL CONVECTION; TANTALUM COMPOUNDS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CHARACTERISTIC VELOCITIES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FROZEN FLOW HYPOTHESIS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY TECHNIQUE; SPACE-TIME CORRELATION; SPACE-TIME CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; TURBULENT CONVECTION; TURBULENT THERMAL CONVECTION;

SHEAR FLOW;

CONVECTION; CORRELATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID MECHANICS; PARTICLE MOTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; THEORETICAL STUDY; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 80053135623     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.249     Document Type: Article

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