Numerical study of natural convection in fully open tilted cavities

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 73-85

  Elsayed, M M ^a   Al Najem, N M ^a   El Refaee, M M ^a   Noor, A A ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; ISOTHERMS; LAMINAR FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRANDTL NUMBER; PROBLEM SOLVING; WALL FLOW;

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; GRASHOF NUMBER; SEMI-IMPLICIT METHOD FOR PRESSURE-LINKED EQUATIONS REVISED (SIMPLER);

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0032680732     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014576399271448     Document Type: Article

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