Natural convection in a narrow horizontal annulus: The effects of thermal and hydrodynamic instabilities

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1019-1026

  Cadiou, P ^a   Desrayaud, G ^b   Lauriat, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

Computational; Enclosure flows; Heat transfer; Instability; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYSTERESIS; PRANDTL NUMBER; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

HORIZONTAL ANNULUS; HYDRODYNAMIC INSTABILITIES; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

ANNULAR FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; INSTABILITY; NATURAL CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INSTABILITY;

EID: 0032215836     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2825885     Document Type: Article

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