Cooperating thermosolutal convection in enclosures - I. Scale analysis and mass transfer

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2671-2681

  Bennacer, R ^a,b   Gobin, D ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b IUSI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLUIDS; MASS TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BINARY FLUID; NUMERICAL CODE; THERMOSOLUTAL CONVECTION; THERMOSOLUTAL FLOW;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

MASS TRANSFER; NATURAL CONVECTION; SCALE EFFECTS;

EID: 0030222415     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0017-9310(95)00350-9     Document Type: Article

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