Heat transport in rotating convection

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00252-8zbMath0941.76037MaRDI QIDQ1808375

Chris Hallstrom, Peter Constantin, Vakhtang Putkaradze

Publication date: 6 December 1999

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Ekman layers; critical rotation rate; globally and nonlinearly attractive fixed point; infinite Prandtl number rotating convection; rotating Rayleigh-Bénard system; turbulent energy transport; upper bounds for Nusselt number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q35: PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76F25: Turbulent transport, mixing

76R05: Forced convection

76F35: Convective turbulence

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