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The results of a series of free thermal convection experiments with low temperature helium gas are reviewed. The scaling relations of various physical quantities in different aspect ratio cells are compared. An order parameter for non-Bousnessq effect is introduced and a quantitative theory is proposed.
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Wu, X.Z. (1998). Free Thermal Convection In Low Temperature Helium Gas. In: Donnelly, R.J., Sreenivasan, K.R. (eds) Flow at Ultra-High Reynolds and Rayleigh Numbers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2230-9_14
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