Investigation of forced convective heat transfer enhancement in the presence of an electric field - A finite element analysis

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 264-284

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

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Convection; Finite element analysis; Heat transfer

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORCED CONVECTION; PRANDTL NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VECTORS;

ELECTRIC FIELD VECTORS; ELECTRO-CONVECTION PROCESS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

CONVECTION; ELECTRIC FIELD; HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 1842587985     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615530410517959     Document Type: Article

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