Thermal convection
Subtitle: patterns, evolution and stability
By: Marcello Lappa
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 670
ISBN-13: 9780470699942
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Equations, general concepts, and methods of analysis; title: Classical models, characteristic numbers, and scaling arguments; title: Examples of thermal fluid convection and pattern formation in nature and technology; title: Thermogravitational convection : the Rayleigh-Bénard problem; title: The dynamics of thermal plumes and related regimes of motion; title: Systems heating from the side : the Hadley flow; title: Thermogravitational convection in inclined systems; title: Thermovibrational convection; title: Marangoni-Bénard convection; title: Thermocapillary convection; title: Mixed buoyancy-Marangoni convection; title: Hybrid regimes with vibrations; title: Flow control by magnetic fields.