Natural convection in enclosures with variable fluid properties

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1079-1096

  De Souza, Marcos ^a   Fortes De Miranda, Ricardo ^b   Araujo Machado, Humberto ^c  

^a Centro de Ensino Superior de Catalao   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO DE PESQUISA E DESENVOLVIMENTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Convection; Heat transfer; Transforms

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASPECT RATIO; CAVITATION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PRANDTL NUMBER; SPECIFIC HEAT OF LIQUIDS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; THERMAL DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; VELOCITY;

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; GENERALIZED INTEGRAL TRANSFORM TECHNIQUE; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; EIGENVALUE; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 0242551743     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530310501966     Document Type: Article

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