Rayleigh-Bénard convection: Improved bounds on the Nusselt number

DOI10.1063/1.3623417zbMATH Open1272.76229OpenAlexW1964311168MaRDI QIDQ2849709FDOQ2849709

Authors: Felix Otto, Christian Seis 

Publication date: 24 September 2013

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3623417

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zbMATH Keywords

Boussinesq equationsinfinite-Prandtl-number limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45) Forced convection (76R05) Convection in hydrodynamic stability (76E06)

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