Temperature in turbulent convection: Discovery could aid design of new cooling systems
Monday, September 17, 2012 - 20:00
in Physics & Chemistry
An international team of physicists is working to ascertain more about the fundamental physical laws that are at work in a process known as convection, which occurs in a boiling pot of water as well as in the turbulent movement of the liquid outer core of Earth. The team's new finding specifies the way that the temperature of a gas or liquid varies with the distance from a heat source during convection.