Natural convective heat transfer in an asymmetric greenhouse-type solar still - Effect of angle of inclination

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 855-880

  Papanicolaou, E ^a   Voropoulos, K ^a   Belessiotis, V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; EVAPORATION; FLOW PATTERNS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SALINE WATER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

ANGLE OF INCLINATION; ASYMMETRIC GREENHOUSE-TYPE SOLAR STILL; NATURAL CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REYNOLDS TURBULENCE MODEL; STREAM-FUNCTION VORTICITY FORMULATION;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0036912395     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780290059846     Document Type: Article

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