Length of near-wall plumes in turbulent convection

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 685, Issue , 2011, Pages 335-364

  Puthenveettil, Baburaj A ^a   Gunasegarane, G S ^a   Agrawal, Yogesh K ^b   Schmeling, Daniel ^c   Bosbach, Johannes ^c   Arakeri, Jaywant H ^d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

buoyant boundary layers; plumes thermals; turbulent convection

Indexed keywords

LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYER;

BUOYANT BOUNDARY LAYERS; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT; HORIZONTAL SURFACES; LAMINAR NATURAL CONVECTION; PLUME SPACING; PLUMES/THERMALS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TURBULENT CONVECTION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; LAMINAR FLOW; PLUME; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

EID: 80053984180     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.319     Document Type: Article

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