Centrifugally driven convection in the rotating cylindrical annulus with modulated boundaries

The effect of sinusoidally modulated conical end boundaries on convection in a rotating cylindrical annulus is investigated theoretically and experimentally. A quasiperiodic time dependence of convection in the form of thermal Rossby waves is found and semi-quantitative agreement between theory...

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Main Authors: M. Westerburg, F. H. Busse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2003-01-01
Series:Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Online Access:http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/10/275/2003/npg-10-275-2003.pdf