Transition to the ultimate state of turbulent rayleigh-bénard convection

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  He, Xiaozhou ^a   Funfschilling, Denis ^b   Nobach, Holger ^a   Bodenschatz, Eberhard ^a,c,d   Ahlers, Guenter ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STATE; CYLINDRICAL SAMPLES; MULTISTABILITY; TRANSITION REGIONS; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS;

NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 84855665686     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.024502     Document Type: Article

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