0 the circular pattern of a gas, such as air, or a liquid, such as magma (= melted rock under the surface of the earth), rising and falling as it becomes hotter and cooler
1 the circular pattern of a gas, such as air, or a liquid, such as magma (= melted rock under the surface of the earth) rising and falling as it becomes hotter and cooler
By its very nature the linear stability analysis predicts counter-rotating convection cells.
The heat is dissipated through large-scale convection cells.
The instabilities that evolved consisted only of co-rotating convection cells.
However, the linear results have counter-rotating convection cells, and experiments have only revealed cells that all rotate in the same direction.
In this investigation an initial disturbance of the form of the counter-rotating convection cells predicted by linear theory was used.
The z-independent perturbation to the stream function is positive in the region near the wall where the convection cells are strongest.
One obvious method to suppress higher-dimensional behaviour in convection in rectangular containers is t o use narrow convection cells.
It is the "sinking" limb of a convection cell.
