Heat transfer by rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 691, Issue , 2012, Pages 568-582

  King, E M ^a   Stellmach, S ^b   Aurnou, J M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

B nard convection; geostrophic turbulence; rotating flows

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT FLUX;

CRITICAL RAYLEIGH NUMBER; EKMAN BOUNDARY LAYERS; GEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ONSET OF CONVECTION; ROTATING CONVECTION; ROTATING FLOW; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; EKMAN TRANSPORT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; LABORATORY METHOD; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; ROTATING FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84855816427     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.493     Document Type: Article

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