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摘 要
Abstract
Contents
Nomenclature
List of Tables
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.2 Literature review
1.2.1 Horizontal convection
1.2.2 Space-time correlations in turbulence flows
1.3 Objectives
1.4 Thesis outline
Chapter 2 Experimental setup
2.1 Relevant parameters
2.2 The HC apparatus
2.3 Thermistors
2.3.1 The design of thermistors
2.3.2 Calibration
2.4 Temperature measurements
2.5 Summary
Capter 3 Experimental method
3.1 Elliptic approximation
3.1.1 Equations of the elliptic approximation
3.1.2 The equivalence between the space and the time domain
3.2 Velocity measurements based on the elliptic approximation
3.3 Summary
Chapter 4 Results and discussion
4.1 Range of applicability of the elliptic approximation
4.1.1 Doubling period oscillation
4.1.2 Local turbulence
4.1.3 Expected range of applicability of the EA
4.2 Tests of the applicability of the elliptic approximation to ourmeasurements
4.2.1 Correlation functions and homogeneity
4.2.2 Dependence of the correlation function and upon rE
4.2.3 Convergence of data
4.2.4 Results for the velocity fluctuations
4.3 Results for the time-averaged Reynolds numbers
4.3.1 The determination of ReU and ReV
4.3.2 Results for ReU and ReV
4.4 Summary
Conclusions
References
