Thermal Convection (PDF)

Thermal Convection - Patterns, Stages of Evolution and Stability
Behavior provides the reader with an ensemble picture of the
subject, illustrating the state-of-the-art and providing the
researchers from universities and industry with a basis on which
they are able to estimate the possible impact of a variety of
parameters. Unlike earlier books on the subject, the heavy
mathematical background underlying and governing the behaviors
illustrated in the text are kept to a minimum.

The text clarifies some still unresolved controversies
pertaining to the physical nature of the dominating driving force
responsible for asymmetric/oscillatory convection in various
natural phenomena and/or technologically important processes and
can help researchers in elaborating and validating new, more
complex models, in accelerating the current trend towards
predictable and reproducible natural phenomena and in establishing
an adequate scientific foundation to industrial processes.

Thermal Convection - Patterns, Stages of Evolution and
Stability Behavior is intended as a useful reference guide for
specialists in disciplines such as the metallurgy and foundry field
and researchers and scientists who are now coordinating their
efforts to improve the quality of semiconductor or macromolecular
crystals. The text may also be of use to organic chemists and
materials scientists, atmosphere and planetary physicists, as well
as an advanced level text for students taking part in courses on
the physics of fluids, fluid mechanics, the behavior and evolution
of non-linear systems, environmental phenomena and materials
engineering.