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    the cause of the convection is unspecified, convection due to the effects of thermal expansion and buoyancy can be assumed. Convection may also take place...
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    Convection (or convective heat transfer) is the transfer of heat from one place to another due to the movement of fluid. Although often discussed as a...
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    A convection oven (also known as a fan-assisted oven, turbo broiler or simply a fan oven or turbo) is an oven that has fans to circulate air around food...
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    Mantle convection is the very slow creep of Earth's solid silicate mantle as convection currents carry heat from the interior to the planet's surface....
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    why this phenomenon occurs? More unsolved problems in physics Granular convection is a phenomenon where granular material subjected to shaking or vibration...
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  • Convective overshoot is a phenomenon of convection carrying material beyond an unstable region of the atmosphere into a stratified, stable region. Overshoot...
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  • The convection–diffusion equation is a parabolic partial differential equation that combines the diffusion and convection (advection) equations. It describes...
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    Forced convection is a mechanism, or type of transport, in which fluid motion is generated by an external source (like a pump, fan, suction device, etc...
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    air tends to rise in an updraft through the process of convection (hence the term convective precipitation). This process creates a low-pressure zone...
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    classified into various mechanisms, such as thermal conduction, thermal convection, thermal radiation, and transfer of energy by phase changes. Engineers...
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    A convection heater, also known as a convector heater, is a type of heater that utilizes convection currents to heat and circulate air. These currents...
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    microwave oven is the convection microwave oven. A convection microwave oven is a combination of a standard microwave oven and a convection oven. It allows...
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    A convection zone, convective zone or convective region of a star is a layer which is unstable due to convection. Energy is primarily or partially transported...
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  • In fluid thermodynamics, Rayleigh–Bénard convection is a type of natural convection, occurring in a planar horizontal layer of fluid heated from below...
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  • Open ocean convection is a process in which the mesoscale ocean circulation and large, strong winds mix layers of water at different depths. Fresher water...
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  • mesovortex is a small-scale rotational feature found in a convective storm, such as a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS, i.e. squall line), a supercell, or...
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    Mechanisms of producing precipitation include convective, stratiform, and orographic rainfall. Convective processes involve strong vertical motions that...
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    In fluid dynamics, a convection cell is the phenomenon that occurs when density differences exist within a body of liquid or gas. These density differences...
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  • The convective overturn model of supernovae was proposed by Bethe and Wilson in 1985, and received a dramatic test with SN 1987A, and the detection of...
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    The level of free convection (LFC) is the altitude in the atmosphere where an air parcel lifted adiabatically until saturation becomes warmer than the...
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    In meteorology, convective available potential energy (commonly abbreviated as CAPE), is a measure of the capacity of the atmosphere to support upward...
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  • thermodynamics, combined forced convection and natural convection, or mixed convection, occurs when natural convection and forced convection mechanisms act together...
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    Atmospheric convection is the vertical transport of heat and moisture in the atmosphere. It occurs when warmer, less dense air rises, while cooler, denser...
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    asthenosphere beneath. Lateral density variations in the mantle result in convection currents, the slow creeping motion of Earth's solid mantle. At a seafloor...
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  • Convection-enhanced delivery (CED) is method of drug delivery in which the drug is delivered into the brain using bulk flow rather than conventional diffusion...
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  • Nusselt number (category Convection)
    boundary in a fluid. Total heat transfer combines conduction and convection. Convection includes both advection (fluid motion) and diffusion (conduction)...
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    In atmospheric sciences, the free convective layer (FCL) is the layer of conditional or potential instability in the troposphere. It is a layer in which...
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    eight people are reported missing. The flooding was caused by a mesoscale convective vortex with enhanced tropical moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm...
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  • convection that can be described by the Navier–Stokes equation is the Rayleigh–Bénard convection. It is one of the most commonly studied convection phenomena...
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    Double diffusive convection is a fluid dynamics phenomenon that describes a form of convection driven by two different density gradients, which have different...
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