A model of confined thermal convection driven by non-uniform heating from below

DOI10.1017/S0022112080000298zbMath0466.76079OpenAlexW1975570328MaRDI QIDQ3919343

Peter Killworth, P. C. Manins

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112080000298

zbMATH Keywords

rectangular boxsimilarity formtwo- dimensionalconfined thermal convectiongeophysical convection systemslaminar or turbulent side-wall regionsnarrow, thermocline-like layernon-uniform heating from below

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Turbulence (76F99) Diffusion and convection (76R99)

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