Enhanced heat transfer rate measured for natural convection in liquid gallium in a cubical enclosure under a static magnetic field

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1027-1032

  Tagawa, Toshio ^a   Ozoe, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enhancement; Heat transfer; Liquid metals; Magnetic; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

LIQUID METALS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUSSELT NUMBER; WATER;

CUBICAL ENCLOSURE; ENHANCED HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HARTMANN NUMBER; LIQUID GALLIUM; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

HEAT TRANSFER;

HEAT TRANSFER; MAGNETIC FIELD; NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0032216436     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2825886     Document Type: Article

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