Laminar natural convection from an elliptic tube with different orientations

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 709-718

  Badr, H M ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Natural convection; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; TEMPERATURE; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VELOCITY;

AXIS RATIO; ELLIPTIC TUBE; ISOTHERMAL SURFACE; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SURFACE VORTICITY DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL FIELD; TUBE ORIENTATION;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 0031273188     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2824175     Document Type: Article

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