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The Role of Kinetic Boundary Conditions in Generating Type II Solutions for Rayleigh-Benard Convection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2016
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A new family of solutions for stationary convection (Murphy and Lopez 1984) has been established which exists within the astrophysical range of parameter values — large Rayleigh number and low Prandtl number. These single mode Type II solutions, which have a non-zero component of vertical vorticity, apparently do not exist at higher Prandtl numbers and are characterized by a lower vertical velocity and heat flux, when compared to the equivalent single mode Type I solutions for Rayleigh — Benard convection with zero vertical vorticity. In turn the vertical component of vorticity associated with Type II solutions is responsible for modifying the horizontal components of the velocity field to establish cyclonic or swirling type solutions within the hexagonal convection cell.
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