An efficient approach to simulate natural convection in arbitrarily eccentric annuli by vorticity-stream function formulation

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 739-756

  Shu, C ^a   Yeo, K S ^a   Yao, Q ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

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EID: 0001517953     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780050195670     Document Type: Article

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