Calculation of turbulent flow and heat transfer in periodically converging-diverging channels

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 95-120

  Habib, M A ^a   Ul Haq, Ikram ^a   Badr, H M ^a   Said, S A M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CALCULATIONS; CHANNEL FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

CONVERGING CHANNELS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

CHANNEL; HEAT TRANSFER; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; TURBULENT FLOW;

CHANNEL FLOW; FLUID FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; SINUSOIDAL; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0031950573     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7930(97)00022-4     Document Type: Article

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