Thermal convection [electronic resource] : patterns, evolution and stability / Marcello Lappa.
Thermal Convection - Patterns, Stages of Evolution and Stability Behavior provides the reader with an ensemble picture of the subject, illustrating the state-of-the-art and providing the researchers from universities and industry with a basis on which they are able to estimate the possible impact of...
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Table of Contents:
- Thermal Convection; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Equations, General Concepts and Methods of Analysis; 2 Classical Models, Characteristic Numbers and Scaling Arguments; 3 Examples of Thermal Fluid Convection and Pattern Formation in Nature and Technology; 4 Thermogravitational Convection: The Rayleigh-Benard Problem; 5 The Dynamics of Thermal Plumes and Related Regimes of Motion; 6 Systems Heated from the Side: The Hadley Flow; 7 Thermogravitational Convection in Inclined Systems; 8 Thermovibrational Convection; 9 Marangoni-Benard Convection; 10 Thermocapillary Convection.