Flow and mixed convection heattransfer in a divergent heatedvertical channel

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 606-615

  Gau, C ^a   Huang, T M ^a   Aung, W ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow visualization; Mixed convection; Thermal packaging

Indexed keywords

CHANNELS; HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 0030479117     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2822675     Document Type: Article

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