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On the non-existence of subcritical instabilities in fluid layers heated from below

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

R. Sani
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York Present address: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

Abstract

Using some recent results it is established that, for very general boundary conditions, time-independent subcritical instabilities do not exist for the non-linear thermoconvective stability problem.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1964 Cambridge University Press

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