Temperature field with thermal cylinders in buoyant flow in stably stratified air

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 393-415

  Noto, Katsuhisa ^a   Mitsuhashi, Satoshi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; KINEMATICS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; THERMAL PLUMES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY;

BUOYANT FLOW; TEMPERATURE FIELDS; THERMAL CYLINDERS; THERMAL FLOW;

THERMOANALYSIS;

EID: 14544273733     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780490517601     Document Type: Article

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