A Generalization of the Mixing-Length Theory of Turbulent Convection.
Abstract
The mixing4ength theory as currently employed is valid only when the mixing length is sufficiently small. The present work attempts to remove this limitation by writing a heat-transfer integral for convecting fluid elements. There then follows an integrodifferential equation for the mean temperature in a convecting medium. it is indicated how this equation may be used to include the effects of penetration into convectively stable regions from adjacent stable regions.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- July 1963
- DOI:
- 10.1086/147628
- Bibcode:
- 1963ApJ...138..216S