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Cellular convection with nonisotropic eddys

Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography · 1965 · 28 citations · 4 references

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Concepts

Natural SciencesMeteorologyHeat TransferBoundary-layer DynamicsCellular MechanicsConvection DynamicsTurbulenceCell ViscosityConvectionConvection Cell DynamicsConvective CellsCritical Reynolds Number

Abstract

The effect on the critical Rayleigh number and thus the effects on the ratio of cell width to cell height is found due to the consideration of nonisotropic properties of the eddy viscosities and conductivities in atmospheric cellular convection.

References

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LIX. <i>On convection currents in a horizontal layer of fluid, when the higher temperature is on the under side</i>

Lord Rayleigh · The London Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science · 1916 · 2K citations

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Dynamics +10

On maintained convective motion in a fluid heated from below

Anne Pellew, Richard Southwell · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1940 · 478 citations

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics +17

LXXVI. <i>The stability of a layer of fluid heated below</i>

Harold Jeffreys · The London Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science · 1926 · 248 citations

Engineering, Physics, Fluid Dynamics +9

The width-height ratio of large convection cells

C. H. B. Priestley · Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography · 1962 · 35 citations · Full text

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics +13