Bifurcation in steady laminar mixed convection flow in uniformly heated inclined tubes

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 543-567

  Orfi, J ^a   Galanis, N ^a   Nguyen, C T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; LAMINAR FLOW; MIXED CONVECTION; PRANDTL NUMBER; STEADY FLOW; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VORTEX FLOW;

BOUSSINESQ FLUIDS; GRASHOF NUMBER;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 0032593083     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615539910276845     Document Type: Article

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