Abstract
The onset of steady natural convection in a rotating cylindrical volume of fluid completely bounded by rigid surfaces is examined for moderate Taylor numbers (Ta≤2×106) and aspect ratios (A≤2). The critical Rayleigh number for three dimensional disturbances is found to be lower than that for the radially unbounded problem by up to a factor of six. The thermal boundary condition on the lateral walls is shown to have a greater effect here than in the nonrotating case.
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