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On the wavelength of convective motions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

E. L. Koschmieder
E. L. Koschmieder
Affiliation:
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 Now at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712.
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Abstract

It has been found experimentally that under a lid of excellent heat conductivity the wavelength of convective motions on a uniformly heated plane increases with increasing supercritical Rayleigh numbers. Under an insulating lid, the wavelength at the critical Rayleigh number is larger than under a well conducting lid. When heating from below is applied rapidly the wavelength is less than in the corresponding stationary case.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , 20 February 1969 , pp. 527 - 530
Copyright
© 1969 Cambridge University Press

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