Abstract
In the three previous Chapters 2–4 we have considered the two limiting cases of heating in the horizontal and in the vertical and their different combinations. These are the simplest cases and in a sufficiently wide range of the system external parameters there is a possibility to study them both from theoretical and experimental points of view. Geophysical applications originate from studies of convection in rotating spheres and spherical shells. The studies of regular motions from theoretical points of view differ little from considerations of a homogeneously heated plane horizontal layer (Chapter 2). However, experimental studies are much more complicated and the progress reached recently is connected with a complex and expensive equipment; e.g., to study the convection in a spherical shell with a body force imitating the Earth central gravity field the experiments have been conducted on the Space Shuttle by Hart et al (1986).
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Boubnov, B.M., Golitsyn, G.S. (1995). Convection from Local Sources. In: Convection in Rotating Fluids. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0243-8_6
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