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Comment on ''Simulation of a two-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard system using the direct simulation Monte Carlo method''

par Garcia, A.;Baras, Florence ;Malek-Mansour, Mohammad-Ali
Référence Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics), 51, 4, page (3784-3785)
Publication Publié, 1995

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In a recent paper, Watanabe, Kaburaki, and Yokokawa [Phys. Rev. E 49, 4060 (1994)] used a direct simulation Monte Carlo method to study Rayleigh-Bénard convection. They reported that, using stress-free boundary conditions, the onset of convection in the simulation occurred at a Rayleigh number much larger than the critical Rayleigh number predicted by a linear stability analysis. We show that the source of the discrepancy is their omission of a temperature jump effect in the calculation of the Rayleigh number. © 1995 The American Physical Society.