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What causes the buoyancy reversal in compressible convection?

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Abstract

Numerical evidence shows that negative buoyancy regions at the top of cellular type compressible convection are caused by viscous drag.

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    Kwing L. Chan

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Chan, K.L. What causes the buoyancy reversal in compressible convection?. Astrophys Space Sci 95, 453–457 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00653648

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