What is "convection cells"

Usage examples of "convection cells".

At a distance of only 150 million kilometers, the sun had the power to boil oceans and set up vast convection cells.

Paul's captor, constructed of the Virtual particle sets of the seething vacuum, resembled its forebears - the odd, vast creatures who had spawned as constructs of convection cells in a boiling ocean - as a laser rifle resembles a piece of chipped stone.

In the convection zone Wan-To could cavort freely, letting himself be carried along by the convection cells when he chose, twisting their paths into amusing tangles when that seemed more interesting.

At ground level the air was almost still, but in the topmost of the three bands of convection cells, sulphurous winds of over 400 kph buffeted vessels.

The fluid seemed to be slowly boiling, so that the meniscus was divided into thousands, or millions, of hexagonal convection cells perhaps a handsbreadth across.

The individual convection cells change shape and also exhibit chang­.

Once in the grip of the convection cells, the ship would be pulled downward into the stellar core.

But now there were spreading pools of white light at the rims of the magmatic convection cells: plasma, presumably, from the high-energy stuff going on in the interior.

Boiling convection cells lifted hot knots of gas to the surface, where they cooled and sank back into the churning depths.

The atmosphere rushes away from there in a gigantic heat-driven flow, setting up currents and convection cells that span the girth of the planet.

He saw a simulation I did of convection cells in storm clouds and got a tent in his pants you wouldn't believe.