New results in the variational approach to turbulent Boussinesq convection

DOI10.1063/1.1327295zbMath1184.76277MaRDI QIDQ3555337

R. R. Kerswell

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1327295

zbMATH Keywords

entropy; heat transfer; turbulence; Bénard convection; variational techniques

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-XX: Fluid mechanics

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