Prediction of transient natural convection in enclosures of arbitrary geometry using a nonorthogonal numerical model

Numerical Heat Transfer

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 373-392

  Hadjisophocleous, G V ^a   Sousa, A C M ^a   Venart, J E S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; COOLING OF SQUARE CAVITY; TIME STEP PARAMETERS; TRANSIENT NATURAL CONVECTION; UNDERRELAXATION PARAMETERS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 0023863453     PISSN: 01495720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407788808913619     Document Type: Article

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