Numerical study of three-dimensional incompressible thermal flows in complex geometries Part I: Theory and benchmark solutions

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 297-343

  Ramaswamy, Balasubramaniam ^a   Moreno, Rafael ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; ITERATIVE METHODS; KINEMATICS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRANDTL NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL EXPANSION; HEAT CONVECTION; LAMINAR FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VISCOUS FLOW;

COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; GRID POINT COUNTER; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY; THERMAL FLOWS; ITERATIVE POINT SUCCESSIVE OVER-RELAXATION FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; FLOW OF FLUIDS;

FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL;

EID: 0030823108     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615539710165813     Document Type: Article

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