Theoretical and numerical study of a thermal convection problem with temperature-dependent viscosity in an infinite layer

DOI10.1016/j.physd.2010.03.001zbMath1189.37094MaRDI QIDQ979131

Olivier Lafitte, Francisco Pla, Henar Herrero

Publication date: 25 June 2010

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2010.03.001

zbMATH Keywords

instability; variable viscosity; buoyancy driven convection; infinite horizontal layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37N10: Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology

76E06: Convection in hydrodynamic stability

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