Molecular Dynamics versus Hydrodynamics in a Two-Dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard System
- 28 November 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 61 (22), 2550-2553
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.61.2550
Abstract
We compare a microscopic simulation of a fluid made up of 5000 hard disks and maintained at a supercritical Rayleigh number to the corresponding macroscopic hydrodynamics. Very good quantitative agreement is demonstrated.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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