Statistical and physical balances in low Rossby number Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 106, Issue 4-5, 2012, Pages 392-428

  Julien, K ^a   Rubio, A M ^a   Grooms, I ^a,b   Knobloch, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Rotating flows; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC REGIMES; BAROTROPIC MODE; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; DYNAMICAL REGIME; GEOSTROPHIC TURBULENCE; LOW ROSSBY NUMBER; PHYSICAL BALANCE; RANDOM INITIAL CONDITIONS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REDUCED EQUATIONS; ROTATING CONVECTION; ROTATING FLOW; TEMPERATURE DROPS; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; THERMAL BOUNDARY LAYER; THERMAL DISSIPATION RATE; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

HEAT CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; ROTATING FLOW; THERMAL CONVECTION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84863812908     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091929.2012.696109     Document Type: Article

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