A model for the emergence of thermal plumes in Rayleigh–Bénard convection at infinite Prandtl number

DOI10.1017/S0022112000008582zbMath0955.76029OpenAlexW4299961903MaRDI QIDQ4504826

Yanick Ricard, C. Lemery, Joel Sommeria

Publication date: 27 February 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112000008582

zbMATH Keywords

thermal boundary layersmoothing methodfinite-time singularitiesthermal plumesEarth's mantlethree-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convectiontemperature anomaly

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free convection (76R10) Convection in hydrodynamic stability (76E06)

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