Effects of truncation in modal representations of thermal convection

DOI10.1017/S0022112081001328zbMath0483.76049MaRDI QIDQ3942602

Philip S. Marcus

Publication date: 1981

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

zbMATH Keywords

Galerkin methodcontinuity equationnonlinear coupled equationsBoussinesq equation of stateLorenz, single-mode, or double-mode modelthermal diffusion equationstransient convection in single spheretruncated modal equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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