Effect of density inversion on cooling of water around a cylinder in a rectangular cavity

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 131-148

  Sasaguchi, K ^a   Kusano, K ^b   Kitagawa, H ^a   Kuwahara, K ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITATION; COOLING; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW PATTERNS; NUSSELT NUMBER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DENSITY INVERSION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0031559538     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407789708913884     Document Type: Article

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