Natural convective heat transfer in square enclosures heated from below

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 2522-2531

  Calcagni, B ^a   Marsili, F ^a   Paroncini, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air; Discrete heater; Holographic interferometry; Natural convection; Square enclosure

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

DISCRETE HEATERS; HEAT SOURCES; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SQUARE ENCLOSURE;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 23644432232     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2004.11.032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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