The onset of convection driven by buoyancy effects caused by various modes of transient heat conduction: Part I. Transient Rayleigh numbers

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 225-238

  Tan, Ka Kheng ^a   Thorpe, Rex B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical depth and critical time; Onset of convection; Transient Biot number; Transient Rayleigh number

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY; HEAT CONDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

BIOT NUMBER; ONSET OF CONVECTION; TRANSIENT RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

HEAT CONVECTION;

BUOYANCY; CONVECTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

BUOYANCY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0032965928     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(98)00248-6     Document Type: Article

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