Numerical investigation of natural convection inside an inclined parallel-walled channel

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 569-582

  Said, S A M ^a   Habib, M A ^a   Badr, H M ^a   Anwar, Sohail ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Channel; Inclined; Natural convection

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUSSELT NUMBER; STEADY FLOW; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VECTORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WALL FLOW;

CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; INCLINED PARALLEL-WALLED CHANNEL; TEMPERATURE CONTOURS; VELOCITY VECTORS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ASPECT RATIO; HEAT TRANSFER; INCLINATION; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; NATURAL CONVECTION;

EID: 25844438293     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1013     Document Type: Article

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