A new turbulence model for near-wall natural convection

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 3161-3176

  Xu, W ^a,b   Chen, Q ^a   Nieuwstadt, F T M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURBULENCE;

NEAR-WALL NATURAL CONVECTION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

MODEL; NATURAL CONVECTION; TURBULENCE;

CONVECTION; FLOW MODELLING; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0032211006     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(98)00081-7     Document Type: Article

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