Isotherms in a horizontal differentially heated cavity at intermediate Rayleigh numbers

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 729-738

  Mishra, Debasish ^a   Muralidhar, K ^a   Munshi, P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ASPECT RATIO; FLOW PATTERNS; ISOTHERMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; STEADY FLOW; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; UNSTEADY FLOW; WALL FLOW;

CUBIC ROLLS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

HEAT CONVECTION;

CAVITY; CONVECTION; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 0033165695     PISSN: 07351933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1933(99)00059-7     Document Type: Article

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