Rayleigh-Bénard natural convection heat transfer: Pattern formation, complexity and predictability

Proceedings of the 2004 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, ICAPP'04

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1342-1352

  Dinh, T N ^a   Yang, Y Z ^a   Tu, J P ^a   Nourgaliev, R R ^a   Theofanous, T G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY SPLITTING; FLUID LAYERS; HEAT TRANSFER MODELS; THERMAL CONVECTION;

COOLING; ENERGY STORAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 14844334669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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