Is the turbulent wind in convective flows driven by fluctuations?

DOI10.1063/1.1588638zbMath1186.76083OpenAlexW2076572404MaRDI QIDQ3553988

W. Kinzelbach, Ulrich Burr, Arkady Tsinober

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1588638

zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationsconvectionfluctuationsturbulenceBénard convectionflow measurement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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