Natural convection with variable viscosity and thermal conductivity from a vertical wavy cone

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 437-443

  Hossain, Md Anwar ^a   Munir, Md Sazzad ^a   Pop, Ioan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Keller box; Natural convection; Variable thermal conductivity; Variable viscosity; Wavy cone surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001127945     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1290-0729(01)01233-9     Document Type: Article

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