Natural convection cooling of rectangular and cylindrical containers

International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 72-81

  Lin, Wenxian ^a   Armfield, S W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAINERS; COOLING; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; UNSTEADY FLOW;

CYLINDRICAL CONTAINERS; RECTANGULAR CONTAINERS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

COOLING; NATURAL CONVECTION; UNSTEADY FLOW;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; UNSTEADY NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0035241747     PISSN: 0142727X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-727X(00)00065-5     Document Type: Article

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