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

DOI10.1063/1.1345719zbMATH Open1184.76344OpenAlexW2164953320WikidataQ59795481 ScholiaQ59795481MaRDI QIDQ3555412FDOQ3555412

Authors: Michael Manga, Dayanthie Weeraratne, 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 layersviscosityflow instabilityrheologystagnation flowBénard convection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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Cited In (6)

• Effects of non-uniform heating on a variable viscosity Rayleigh-Bénard problem
• Theoretical and numerical study of a thermal convection problem with temperature-dependent viscosity in an infinite layer
• Effects of a temperature modulation in phase at the frontier on the convective instability of a viscoelastic layer
• Effects of spatially varying roof cooling on thermal convection at high Rayleigh number in a fluid with a strongly temperature-dependent viscosity
• Onset of Benard-Marangoni instabilities in a double diffusive binary fluid layer with temperature-dependent viscosity
• Plume formation in strongly temperature-dependent viscosity fluids over a very hot surface

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