Investigation of natural convection heat transfer from a horizontal isothermal plate by schlieren tomography

Heat and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-46

  Devia, F ^a   Tanda, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUOYANCY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SCHLIEREN SYSTEMS;

SCHLIEREN TOMOGRAPHY;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0033679252     PISSN: 03928764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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