Abstract: | The effect of the Coriolis force on the onset of convection in a plane horizontal layer of viscous fluid with a fixed heat flux on the rigid lower and free upper boundaries is investigated. Expressions for the critical Rayleigh numbers and wave number are obtained analytically in the rapid rotation limit.Perm'. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, pp. 42–46, May–June, 1994. |