Effective boundary conditions for buoyancy-driven flows and heat transfer in fully open-ended two-dimensional enclosures

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2527-2538

  Khanafer, K ^a   Vafai, K ^a,b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective boundary conditions; Natural convection; Open ended structure; Two dimensional

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PRANDTL NUMBER;

APERTURE PLANES;

HEAT TRANSFER;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY; CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 0037193357     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(01)00349-0     Document Type: Article

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