Visualization and prediction of natural convection of water near its density maximum in a tall rectangular enclosure at high Rayleigh numbers

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 84-95

  Ho, C J ^a   Tu, F J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Density inversion; Enclosure flows; Heat transfer; Natural convection; Unsteadly

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; VORTEX FLOW; WATER;

BICELLULAR FLOW; RAYLEIGH NUMBERS;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

NATURAL CONVECTION; PREDICTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; VISUAL INSPECTION; WATER;

EID: 0035244474     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1336511     Document Type: Article

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