Natural convection in a trapezoidal enclosure heated from the side with a baffle mounted on its upper inclined surface

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 80-93

  Moukalled, F ^a   Darwish, M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUOYANCY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER;

INCLINED SURFACES; SOLAR COLLECTION ENCLOSURES; TRAPEZOIDAL CAVITY;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 10444261139     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630490520356     Document Type: Article

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