Boundary-layer thickness and instabilities in Bénard convection of a liquid with a temperature-dependent viscosity

DOI10.1063/1.1345719zbMath1184.76344OpenAlexW2164953320WikidataQ59795481 ScholiaQ59795481MaRDI QIDQ3555412

Dayanthie Weeraratne, Michael Manga, S. J. S. Morris

Publication date: 22 April 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/56546d6104b00ed65650507669061fec068fd0f5

zbMATH Keywords

boundary layersviscositystagnation flowrheologyBénard convectionflow instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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