Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
  • Buoyancy-driven flow of a fluid heated from below and cooled from above
  • Applications in geophysics, astrophysics, meteorology, oceanography and engineering
  • Well-known model for nonlinear and chaotic dynamics, pattern formation and fully developed turbulence
Rayleigh-Benardconvection

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