Model of the transient stratified flow into a chilled-water storage tank

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 4367-4377

  Homan, K O ^a   Soo, S L ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; LIQUID WAVES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OSCILLATIONS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VORTEX FLOW; WATER TANKS;

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; TRANSIENT STRATIFIED FLOW; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

LAMINAR FLOW;

FLOW FIELD; MODELING; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; STRATIFIED FLOW; WATER TANK;

EID: 0031280113     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(97)00063-X     Document Type: Article

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