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The effect of viscous dissipation on non-linear convection at high Rayleigh number
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
Abstract
When studying deep convection in a compressible medium the effects of viscous dissipation can become important and must be taken into account in any realistic model. But even in shallow convection, for which the Boussinesq approximation is valid, the viscous dissipation effects will become important at high Rayleigh numbers. These effects are estimated with the help of asymptotic methods and the results are compared with those obtained by numerical integration.
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