Rayleigh-Bénard convection in the presence of a radial ramp of the Rayleigh number

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn , Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Bajaj, Kapil M S ^a   Mukolobwiez, Nathalie ^a   Oh, Jaechul ^a   Ahlers, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat transfer and convection; Patterns

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EID: 84856376807     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2006/02/P02001     Document Type: Article

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