Natural convection in partially cooled tilted cavities

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 477-499

  El Refaee, M M ^a   Elsayed, M M ^a   Al Najem, N M ^a   Noor, A A ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Natural convection; Partial cooling; Storage tanks; Tilted cavity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; FLOW PATTERNS; HEAT SINKS; ISOTHERMS; LAMINAR FLOW; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUSSELT NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW;

FALSE IMPLICIT TRANSIENT SCHEME (FITS) ALGORITHM; GRASHOF NUMBERS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0032163682     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(19980915)28:3<477::AID-FLD725>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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