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Self-similar convection near a thermal quadrupole

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The self-similar solution is constructed for the Boussinesq equations describing free convection near a differentially heated local section on a horizontal plane.

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  1. Thermophysics Institute, Siberian Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Novosibirsk

    M. A. Gol'dshtik & V. N. Shtern

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  1. M. A. Gol'dshtik
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 913–920, December, 1988.

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Gol'dshtik, M.A., Shtern, V.N. Self-similar convection near a thermal quadrupole. Journal of Engineering Physics 55, 1349–1354 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00870932

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