Turning up the heat in turbulent thermal convection
Charles R. Doering
Abstract
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.
Topics & Concepts
BuoyancyConvectionConvective heat transferMechanicsGeophysicsDynamoRayleigh numberCombined forced and natural convectionTurbulenceHeat transferNatural convectionConvection cellRayleigh–Bénard convectionDynamo theoryPhysicsGeologyMagnetic fieldQuantum mechanicsFluid Dynamics and Turbulent FlowsPlant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics