Abstract
The traveling-wave wall mode in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection was discussed. It was found that no-slip top and bottom boundary conditions were used for the numerical computation of the linear stability. A comparison of the numerical results for the no-slip boundary conditions with free-slip calculations and with experimental data was presented. Analysis shows that the inclusion of the more realistic no-slip boundary condition for the top and bottom surfaces brought the numerical linear stability analysis into better agreement with the experimental data.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 056301 |
| Pages (from-to) | 056301-1-056301-9 |
| Journal | Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue number | 5 1 |
| State | Published - May 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Statistics and Probability
- Condensed Matter Physics