Numerical Simulation of a Thermoacoustic Refrigerator: II. Stratified Flow around the Stack

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 299-324

  Worlikar, Aniruddha S ^a   Knio, Omar M ^a   Klein, Rupert ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Domain decomposition; Finite differences; Thermoacoustics; Vorticity based methods

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DOMAIN DECOMPOSITIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; NEIGHBOURHOOD; STRATIFIED FLOWS; THERMALLY STRATIFIED; THERMOACOUSTIC; THERMOACOUSTIC REFRIGERATORS; THERMOACOUSTIC STACKS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; VORTICITY-BASED METHOD;

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EID: 0001504975     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.1997.5816     Document Type: Article

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