Benchmark solutions for the natural convective heat transfer problem in a square cavity with large horizontal temperature differences

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1057-1078

  Vierendeels, Jan ^a   Merci, Bart ^a   Dick, Erik ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Convection; Flow; Temperature distribution

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAVITATION; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; LAMINAR FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; SPECIFIC HEAT OF LIQUIDS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF LIQUIDS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; WALL FLOW;

BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION; LOW MACH NUMBER APPROXIMATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAMINAR FLOW;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

CAVITY; HEAT TRANSFER; LAMINAR FLOW; NATURAL CONVECTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 0242551745     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530310501957     Document Type: Article

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