Solution of transport equations on unstructured meshes with cell-centered colocated variables. Part II: Applications

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1128-1136

  Pimpalnerkar, S ^a   Kulkarni, M ^a   Date, A W ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Cubic cavity; Nozzle; SIMPLE algorithm; T branch; Twisted tape; Unstructured meshes

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DATA REDUCTION; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CELL-CENTERED COLOCATED VARIABLES; DISCRETIZATION; TRANSPORT EQUATIONS; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

HEAT TRANSFER;

HEAT TRANSFER; MODELING; TRANSPORT;

EID: 13644269650     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2004.09.037     Document Type: Article

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