The convective instability in a microemulsion Phase-Change-Material slurry layer

JSME International Journal, Series B: Fluids and Thermal Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 126-137

  Inaba, Hideo ^a   Dai, Chuanshan ^b   Horibe, Akihiko ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Convective instability; Hysteresis; Microemulsion; Phase Change Material; Rayleigh B nard convection; Subcritical convection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HYSTERESIS; MICROEMULSIONS; NUSSELT NUMBER; OSCILLATIONS; SLURRY PIPELINES;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL; PSEUDOPLASTICITY;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

CONVECTION; INSTABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 1842790486     PISSN: 13408054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/jsmeb.47.126     Document Type: Article

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