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Our third example of fluid motion in a simple configuration is taken from a different branch of fluid mechanics, free convection. The cause of motion is the action of a gravitational field on the density variations associated with temperature variations — essentially the well-known fact that hot fluid rises. A systematic discussion of free convection will be given in Chapter 14. Here we discuss the phenomena to be observed in one particular arrangement [72, 145].
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Tritton, D.J. (1977). Convection in Horizontal Layers. In: Physical Fluid Dynamics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9992-3_4
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