Heat conduction across irregular and fractal-like surfaces

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1329-1339

  Blyth, M G ^a   Pozrikidis, C ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; INDENTATION; ISOTHERMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

HARMONIC FUNCTIONS;

HEAT CONDUCTION;

CONDUCTION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0037397032     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(02)00419-2     Document Type: Article

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