A numerical and experimental investigation of stability of natural convective flows within a horizontal annulus

DOI10.1017/S0022112098002948zbMath0961.76021OpenAlexW2162209293WikidataQ128379030 ScholiaQ128379030MaRDI QIDQ4262285

A. Kader Mojtabi, Mark P. Dyko, Kambiz Vafai

Publication date: 5 June 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112098002948

zbMATH Keywords

Galerkin methodBoussinesq approximationnatural convectioncritical Rayleigh numberlinear stability analysiscentral differenceshorizontal annulusenergy stability analysisvorticity-vector potential formulationtwo concentric cylinders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Free convection (76R10) Convection in hydrodynamic stability (76E06)

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