Effect of surface waviness and aspect ratio on heat transfer inside a wavy enclosure

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1097-1122

  Das, Prodip Kumar ^a   Mahmud, Shohel ^b   Humaira Tasnim, Syeda ^b   Sadrul Islam, A K M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Convection; Finite volume methods; Heat transfer; Surface texture

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BEJAN NUMBER; BUOYANCY INDUCED FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER IRREVERSIBILITY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SURFACE WAVINESS;

HEAT CONVECTION;

BUOYANCY; FINITE VOLUME TECHNIQUE; HEAT TRANSFER; SURFACE CONTACT; SURFACE ENERGY; WAVE;

EID: 0242720787     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530310501975     Document Type: Article

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