Buoyancy effects on mixed convection heat and mass transfer in a duct with sudden expansions

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 559-567

  Alimi, S El ^a   Orfi, J ^b   Nasrallah, S Ben ^c  

^a ENIM   (Tunisia)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THERMAL DIFFUSION; THERMAL EXPANSION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BUOYANCY FORCES; FLOW STRUCTURE; STREAM FUNCTION; VORTICITY;

MIXED CONVECTION;

EID: 16244381772     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-004-0566-9     Document Type: Article

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