Comparative analysis of linear and nonlinear low-reynolds-number eddy viscosity models to turbulent natural convection in horizontal cylindrical annuli

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 191-206

  Char, Ming I ^a   Hsu, Yuan Hsiung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); LAMINAR FLOW; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY; VORTEX FLOW; WALL FLOW;

HORIZONTAL CYLINDRICAL ANNULI; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0032488757     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407789808913934     Document Type: Article

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