Abstract
Experimental study in gaseous helium at low temperature (4 K) of thermal convection up to a Rayleigh number . Three regimes are observed, a chaotic state up to , a soft-turbulence state up to , and then a hard-turbulence state. We associate those three regimes to the boundary-layer formation and dynamics.
- Received 13 July 1987
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.36.5870
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