Laminar natural convection heat transfer in a differentially heated square cavity due to a thin fin on the hot wall

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 624-634

  Shi, Xundan ^a   Khodadadi, J M ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavities; Finned surfaces; Heat transfer; Natural convection; Vortex

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHAOS THEORY; LAMINAR FLOW; NATURAL CONVECTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CIRCULAR LOOPS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

CAVITY; FIN; HEAT TRANSFER; LAMINAR FLOW; NATURAL CONVECTION; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION;

EID: 0042418710     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1571847     Document Type: Article

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