Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Differentially Heated Square Cavity in Presence of an Electric Field - A Finite Element Analysis

Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 225-241

  Bandyopadhyay, Asish ^a   Sen, Swarnendu ^a   Sarkar, Amitava ^a   Bhattacharya, Souvik ^b  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Augmentation; EHD; Electrode; FEM; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEATING; NUSSELT NUMBER; PRANDTL NUMBER; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

AUGMENTATION; HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT;

NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 1542393477     PISSN: 10655131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/JEnhHeatTransf.v10.i2.80     Document Type: Article

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