Laboratory studies of image deterioration due to convection above heated mirror have been published by a few researchers:
All these laboratory measurements constitute an important body of data but, perhaps because different methods were used, they have never been generalized and interpreted in a way that would lead to a general theory of the mirror seeing phenomenon from which one could obtain engineering parameterizations reliably applicable to an actual telescope design.
In the next section we will describe the mirror seeing phenomenon
as it appears from a fluid dynamics standpoint.
Section 
will summarize the available experimental
data, including some obtained by the author during this work,
and reduce them to common units of measure.
Then in section the various data sets
will be analyzed,
interpreted in the light of similarity relationships
and utilized to develop and validate approximate computational models
which will provide a useful theory for understanding and
controlling the mirror seeing phenomenon in telescopes.