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The natural convection from a vertical cylinder, is determined in the limiting case of very large Prandtl number, the Grashof number remaining finite.
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Crane, L.J. Natural convection from a vertical cylinder at very large Prandtl numbers. J Eng Math 10, 115–124 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01535654
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