Turbulent natural convection along a vertical backward-facing step

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD

Volumn 333, Issue , 1996, Pages 303-311

  Yuan, X ^a   Chen, T S ^a   Armaly, B F ^a  

^a Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; HEAT LOSSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY;

FLOW SEPARATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MEAN FLOW VELOCITY; REATTACHMENT LENGTH; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0030393668     PISSN: 02725673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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