Free convective heat transfer structures as a function of the width of isothermal horizontal rectangular plates

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 42-50

  Radziemska, Ewa ^a   Lewandowski, Witold M ^a  

^a GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; KINEMATICS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUSSELT NUMBER; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); VISCOSITY;

NUSSELT-RAYLEIGH RELATIONS; PLATE WIDTH; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; RECTANGULAR PLATES;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 17444370970     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457630590916275     Document Type: Article

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