The Boussinesq Approximation is a modeling assumption in fluid dynamics, within the context of viscous flow and primitive equations, that simplifies the treatment of buoyancy-driven flows by considering density variations only in the gravitational term while assuming incompressibility and constant density elsewhere.
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D. H. Peregrine · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1967 · 1.4K citations
Non-linear properties of thermal convection
F. H. Busse · Reports on Progress in Physics · 1978 · 962 citations
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