Linear stability of natural convection in spherical annuli

DOI10.1017/S0022112090003500zbMath0715.76024MaRDI QIDQ3201947

Rod W. Douglass, Steven A. Trogdon, David R. Gardner

Publication date: 1990

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

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvalue problemNatural convectionBoussinesq fluidflow bifurcationnarrow gap

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Free convection (76R10)

Cites Work

• Natural convection in narrow-gap, spherical annuli
• The stability of natural convection in narrow-gap spherical annuli to axisymmetric disturbances
• A modified tau spectral method that eliminates spurious eigenvalues
• Natural convection between concentric spheres in a slightly-thermally stratified medium
• Poloidal and toroidal potentials for solenoidal fields
• Toroidal and Poloidal Field Representation for Convective Flow within a Sphere
• Accurate solution of the Orr–Sommerfeld stability equation

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