Heat transfer simulation in vertical cylindrical enclosures for supercritical Rayleigh number and arbitrary side-wall conductivity

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 323-343

  Ivancic A ^a   Oliva, A ^a   Perez Segarra C D ^a   Costa, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Rayleigh number

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 17544384520     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(98)00113-6     Document Type: Article

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