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Phys. Rev. E 56, 4896 - 4896 (1997)

Comment I on “Instability threshold in the Bénard-Marangoni problem”

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A. Thess
Institute for Fluid Mechanics, Dresden University of Technology, 01062 Dresden, Germany

Received 5 August 1996

The mathematical content of the linear stability study [L. E. Rabin, Phys. Rev. E 53, R2057 (1996)] duplicates the early work of Pearson [J. Fluid Mech.4, 489 (1958)] and Nield [J. Fluid Mech. 19, 34 (1964)]. It is shown that the physical conclusions reflect only a redefinition of the Marangoni number.


©1997 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v56/p4896
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.56.4896
PACS: 47.20.Dr, 47.20.Bp, 44.90.+c

See Also

Original: Leo M. Rabin, Instability threshold in the Bénard-Marangoni problem, Phys. Rev. E 53, R2057 (1996)

Comment: Stephen J. VanHook and J. B. Swift, Comment II on “Instability threshold in the Bénard-Marangoni problem”, Phys. Rev. E 56, 4897 (1997)

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