Infinite Prandtl number thermal convection in a spherical shell

DOI10.1017/S0022112080002558zbMath0455.76073OpenAlexW2120779898MaRDI QIDQ3904282

Abdelfattah Zebib, Joe M. Straus, Gerald Schubert

Publication date: 1980

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112080002558

zbMATH Keywords

infinite Prandtl numberBoussinesq fluid in spherical shell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Diffusion and convection (76Rxx)

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Cites Work

• On the Stability of Two‐Dimensional Convection in a Layer Heated from Below