Flow patterns of natural convection in an air-filled vertical cavity

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1924-1928

  Wakitani, Shunichi ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NATURAL CONVECTION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NEWTONIAN FLOW; STEADY FLOW; TEMPERATURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL; UNSTEADY FLOW; VELOCITY;

AIR FILLED VERTICAL CAVITY; FLOW STRUCTURE; MULTICELLULAR FLOW; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TWO DIMENSIONAL NATURAL CONVECTION;

FLOW PATTERNS;

EID: 0032133522     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869708     Document Type: Article

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