Flow field analysis in a ventilated large enclosure subject to non-homogeneous boundary conditions

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 42-56

  Angioletti, M ^a   Di Tommaso, R M ^a   Nino, E ^a   Ruocco, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; ENCLOSURES; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW PATTERNS; FORCED CONVECTION; JETS; LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS; NATURAL CONVECTION;

FLOW FIELD ANALYSIS; INLET FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0344945688     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630304068     Document Type: Article

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