Bound to improve: a variational approach to convective heat transport

DOI10.1017/S0022112001004839zbMath1008.76025OpenAlexW2101541362MaRDI QIDQ2747026

Glenn R. Ierley, Rodney A. Worthing

Publication date: 10 April 2003

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112001004839

zbMATH Keywords

perturbation theoryvariational methodenergetic constraints\(z\)-constraintsturbulent convective heat transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Convective turbulence (76F35)

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