Prediction of unsteady natural convection within A horizontal narrow annular space using the control-volume method

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 811-829

  Borjini, Mohamed Naceur ^a,b   Abidi, Awatef ^a   Ben Aissia, Habib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; DIFFUSION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMBER THEORY; OSCILLATIONS;

CHAOTIC FLOW; CONTROL-VOLUME METHOD; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMAL INSTABILITIES;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 27644467008     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780500196576     Document Type: Article

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