Local energy dissipation rate balances local heat flux in the center of turbulent thermal convection

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Ni, Rui ^a   Huang, Shi Di ^a   Xia, Ke Qing ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL HEIGHT; CONVECTION CELL; ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; GROSSMANN-LOHSE MODEL; LOCAL ENERGY; LOCAL HEAT FLUX; LOCAL NUSSELT NUMBER; MEASURED RESULTS; PARTICLE TRACKING VELOCIMETRY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TURBULENT THERMAL CONVECTION;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY DISSIPATORS; HEAT FLUX; NUSSELT NUMBER; RADIUM;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 80054721172     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.174503     Document Type: Article

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