The sensitivity of convection from a horizontal boundary to the distribution of heating

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2010

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Coman, Melissa
Griffiths, Ross
Hughes, Graham

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Cambridge University Press

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Results of experimental and numerical studies are presented for a class of horizontal thermal convection in a long box forced at one horizontal boundary by two regions of destabilizing buoyancy flux separated by a region of stabilizing buoyancy flux. The

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Keywords: Boundary forcing; Buoyancy fluxes; Heat input; Numerical studies; Overturning circulation; Southern Hemisphere; Surface cooling; Symmetric flow; Thermal convections; Buoyancy; Oceanography; Heating; buoyancy forcing; circulation; experimental study; flow

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics

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Journal article

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2037-12-31