Flow pattern and heat transfer rate in Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 972-978

  Watanabe, Tadashi ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; FLOW PATTERNS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUSSELT NUMBER;

LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

HEAT CONVECTION;

CONVECTION; FLOW PATTERN; FLUID DYNAMICS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; WAVE;

CONVECTION; FLOW PATTERN; FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

EID: 1842785570     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1651494     Document Type: Article

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