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Developments in High-Rayleigh Number Convection

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A selection of problems in the broad field of buoyancy-driven convective turbulence in the atmosphere and oceans, and in magma chambers, is reviewed, including both vertical and horizontal forcing fluxes. Specific problems include convection at very high Rayleigh numbers in the classical Rayleigh-Bünard configuration, the effects of planetary rotation, thermohaline convection in the oceans, the coupling of convection with solidification or melting, and deep convection in the oceans. Horizontal convection currents at large-scales in the oceans are included as an example of strongly stratified convective flow driven by lateral gradients.

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Griffiths, R.W. (2000). Developments in High-Rayleigh Number Convection. In: Kerr, R.M., Kimura, Y. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Developments in Geophysical Turbulence. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 58. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0928-7_3

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