A note on the howard-Malkus-Whitehead floating heat sources
- 1 January 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- Vol. 2 (1), 317-322
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03091927108236066
Abstract
Some deficiencies in a recent paper by Howard, Malkus and Whitehead are examined. The problem is reformulated in terms of an integro-differential equation, from which both asymptotic and numerical solutions are obtained.Keywords
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