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Thermal convection in low Prandtl number fluids can develop large Reynolds number regimes near the threshold of the convective instability. The reason is that the velocity for the primary flow near the onset of instability scales with the thermal time, with the implication that the associated Reynolds number increases with decreasing Prandtl number. Therefore, low Prandtl number thermal convection provides an excellent setting to explore shear type instabilities in well organized, confined flows.
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Massaguer, J.M., Mercader, I., Blázquez, S. (1987). Modal Approach to Low Prandtl Number Thermal Convection. In: Comte-Bellot, G., Mathieu, J. (eds) Advances in Turbulence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83045-7_7
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