Natural convection from a discrete heat source on the bottom of a horizontal enclosure

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 2257-2266

  Sezai, I ^a   Mohamad, A A ^a  

^a EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Discrete heat source; Horizontal enclosure; Multigrid method; Natural convection; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ENCLOSURES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER;

DISCRETE HEAT SOURCE; MULTIGRID METHOD; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; NATURAL CONVECTION; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 0343673409     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(99)00304-X     Document Type: Article

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