Mixed-convection heat transfer in concave and convex channels

Journal of thermophysics and heat transfer

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 508-516

  Moukalled, F ^a   Doughan, A ^a   Acharya, S ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; CHANNEL FLOW; NUSSELT NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

GRASHOF NUMBER;

MIXED CONVECTION;

EID: 0033318034     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.6469     Document Type: Article

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