by Ma Kin Lok. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-95). / Text in English; abstract also in Chinese. / by Ma Kin Lok. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / Abstract (Chinese version) --- p.iv / Contents --- p.v / List of Figures --- p.vii / List of Tables --- p.ix / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Experimental setups and Coherent structures --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1 --- Experimental setup for turbulent convection using helium --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2 --- Experimental setup for turbulent convection using water --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3 --- Coherent structures in turbulent convection --- p.13 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Statistics in turbulent convection --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1 --- Statistics versus Rayleigh number and height --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Time series of normalized temperature fluctuations --- p.17 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- PDF of normalized temperature fluctuations --- p.18 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- q(x) and r(x) --- p.21 / Chapter 3.2 --- Statistics versus height --- p.25 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Time series of normalized temperature fluctuations --- p.25 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- PDF of normalized temperature fluctuations --- p.28 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Skewness and flatness of normalized temperature fluctuations --- p.32 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- q(x) and r(x) --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- Decomposition of the helium data --- p.40 / Chapter 4.1 --- Method of study for decomposition --- p.41 / Chapter 4.2 --- Effects of the decomposition on P(x) --- p.44 / Chapter 4.3 --- Modeling of coherent structures by average peaks --- p.46 / Chapter 4.4 --- The two conditional averages of the average peaks --- p.52 / Chapter 4.5 --- Effects of the peaks on PDF --- p.57 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Statistics of Temperature Dissipation Rate --- p.62 / Chapter 5.1 --- She and Leveque's model for energy dissipation rate --- p.62 / Chapter 5.2 --- Limits of moments of temperature dissipation rate --- p.66 / Chapter 5.3 --- Scaling of moments of temperature dissipation rate --- p.68 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Conclusions --- p.37 / Appendix A. The relation between Nu and λth --- p.89 / Appendix B. The algorithm of filtering the peaks --- p.90 / Appendix C. Effect of normalization on the conditional averages --- p.91 / Bibliography --- p.93
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_322257 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Contributors | Ma, Kin Lok., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Physics. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, ix, 95 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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