Experimental Nusselt numbers for a cubical-cavity benchmark problem in natural convection

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1979-1989

  Leong, W H ^a,c   Hollands, K G T ^b,c   Brunger, A P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b HATCH LTD   (Canada)

^c ORTECH Corp   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CAVITATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NUSSELT NUMBER;

CUBICAL CAVITY BENCHMARK; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

CAVITY; NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0032105353     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(98)00299-3     Document Type: Article

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