Application of differential quadrature method to simulate natural convection in a concentric annulus

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 977-993

  Shu, C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Annulus; Differential quadrature; Rayleigh number

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION;

CONCENTRIC ANNULUS; DIFFERENTIAL QUADRATURE METHODS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ANNULAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; NATURAL CONVECTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 0033177867     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(19990830)30:8<977::AID-FLD873>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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